Writing Poetry

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William Butler Yeats said, “In wise love each divines the high secret self of the other and refusing to believe in the mere daily self creates a mirror…” Writing a poem to your beloved shows him or her that you have divined their “high secret self” and that you appreciate them for who they are and what they contribute to your life.... more »

Alliteration is an ancient literary device. To the Anglo-Saxons who wrote "Beowulf," it was a more important component of poetry than rhyme was. Today, it's used to make slogans stick in your mind or to make children's books more amusing to read out loud. To find out more about alliteration's uses and abuses, read on. more »

Clark Ashton Smith was one of the “big three” of horror writers at the peak of "Weird Tales" magazine in the 1920s and 1930s along with his friends H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. Today, he probably is the least remembered of the three, yet he was a great writer who produced many stories in the magazines of the... more »

Robert Frost was an American poet, most famous for his poem "The Road Not Taken." A four-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Frost wrote simple, thoughtful verse on philosophical topics, usually on natural or rural themes. more »