No matter if you're in school or well past your days in English class, figures of speech are used every day in our lives. From songs and television shows to conversations and advertisements, we often ...

Poetry and social media join forces in April, as Tell Me More celebrates National Poetry Month with the Muses and Metaphor series. We'll feature poems exchanged via Twitter by NPR fans — always in 140 ...

Let us start with a little poetry joke, shall we? Q: What did the poet say to Luke Skywalker? A: Metaphors be with you! Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!

Tell Me More is celebrating National Poetry Month in April with its third annual 'Muses and Metaphor' series. Listeners can tweet their short poems using the #TMMPoetry. You might have noticed that it ...

Historically, metaphors and figurative language have been ignored as a serious topic of study in psychology and philosophy, exiled to the land of rhetoricians or literary analysts. In fact, even in ...

Karmic Chanting is Sonnet Mondal’s sixth published book of poems. Mondal may be young, but his poetry, especially in this book, reflects the image of a brooding, lost-in-his inner-world poet. Even ...

With nods to both Emily Dickinson and the hymns of Isaac Watts, this finds a mineral solidity in its metaphors of life and death Death makes dead metaphor revive Death makes dead metaphor revive, Turn ...