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Let's face it: Today, the audience of poetry is increasingly dwindling as poetry becomes appealing and understandable only ...

For your education, enjoyment, and (perhaps) excitement, this is a list of the greatest poems originally written in the ...

"To be, or not to be: that is the question." This is the most famous line in all ...

The aversion to poetry are exactly the symptoms of a sickness of our modern world.