Roses are red, violets are blue; we love us some funny poems, how about you? Part joke, part poetry, funny roses-are-red poems are classics for a reason: They're a humorous twist on sometimes ...
Students could brainstorm ways in which a poem could be made funny, and when and why you would want to make a poem humorous. Students could have a ‘funny poem’ competition and try to write ...
Shakespeare reading "Hamlet" to his family, circa 1600. Most people confuse a sonnet and a poem, but they have slight differences. A sonnet is a specific type of poem, typically consisting of 14 ...
Here’s how my thoughts ran: These poems were often posted somewhere so the recipients would find them. Somewhere like, say, a wall. A wall. The wall. Posting to the wall. Holy Facebook, Batman! And ...
To mark National Poetry Day, Farshore’s non-fiction imprint Red Shed has announced the acquisition of A Poem for Every Question, written by Brian Bilston and illustrated by Joe Berger.