This short video shows us three different American Sign Language poems – two of which are less than a minute long. They give us an idea of poetry that is entirely out of most mainstream ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Poetry can be used to create a clear image in your reader's mind. You can use figurative language in your poems to ...

From ancient Greek soapbox soliloquies to viral TikTok videos of poetry slams, spoken word has always charged language with kinetic immediacy. Encompassing a unique blend of honesty and an ...

The Grand Piano is a highbrow Friends—a collective history of the early years of Language poetry. It must have been in 1979: I picture it happening at Books & Co. on Manhattan’s Upper East ...

ASL poetry offers an incredible depth of expression through the use of location — a sign normally at the forehead, for example, can be moved somewhere else — as well as handshapes and facial ...

Diction as an Expression of Class Identity in Poetry. The surest way to divine the class affiliation(s) of a poem is through its diction. By that I mean the kinds of words a poem uses—literary, ...

It often appears in classical plays, epic poetry, and stylized modern works ... The works of William Shakespeare are arguably most famous examples of heightened language, with their use of ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Poetry can be used to create a clear image in your reader's mind. You can use figurative language in your poems to ...