Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reading a poem by Robert Hass is like stepping into the ocean when the temperature of the water is not much different from that of ...

else, and is like the components of everything. Albert Goldbarth is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and has won numerous awards, including two National Book Critics Circle Awards. He is ...

A simile describes something by comparing it to something else, using like or as. A simile is a useful way to describe something without using a long list of adjectives. It can create a vivid image in ...

to the outer reaches, fled and ever-fixed, adrift with our space-faring dead. Mark Granier’s poems have appeared in the New Statesman, Poetry Review and Carol Ann Duffy’s online pandemic ...

Literal language is when we say what we mean. Like “The news van is parked outside,” or “Meeting new people makes me nervous.” Figurative language can be anything that doesn't mean what it says ...