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How-tos for all things poetry; learn how to analyze a poem, construct a haiko, differentiate between a metaphor and simile and more.
How to Live with Yourself When the Mirror is Shattered
You may wake to find your mirror has been shattered. When searching for something or someone to blame, you must come to terms with the idea that, sometimes, you are your own worst enemy. You can wish you realized sooner that the problem lies not with the outside looking in but the inside trying to escape.
By Sam Eliza Green4 years ago in Poets
‘A Time to Change’: How Nissim Ezekiel became the pioneer of a new era of English poetry in India
Nissim Ezekiel’s A Time to Change was published seventy years ago, in 1952. To many, this was the first significant book of postcolonial poetry in English. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it was published in England, where Ezekiel had travelled on impulse, and managed to stay nearly four years before returning to his beloved Bombay.
By Virendra Kumar4 years ago in Poets
