Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

This love poem totally gets that feeling of always ... how ordinary his lover is until the turning point in the last two lines, also known as the volta, when he declares that his love is not ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...