“Hwæt,” the first word of “Beowulf,” has no direct equivalent in modern English. Tolkien described it as “a note ‘striking up’ at the beginning of a poem,” calling the listener or ...

The Nation recently published a poem in which a homeless narrator speaks a complex, nuanced variety of English with a long and interesting history. The variety of English is Black English ...

We don't know. Despite featuring some gaps we need to fill in with our imagination, English's (possibly) oldest surviving poem, The Wanderer, nails the nostalgia-and-boredom-and-dread mixture ...

As The Poke points out, a poem written in 1920 perfectly encapsulates the baffling nature of English. In fact, it's so tricky that even native English speakers with college degrees may struggle to ...

When Susan Greenstein Prescott was a high school senior, her English teacher, Fred DiMeo, gave her a terrifying assignment: Recite a poem in front of the whole class. "I had a mild stutter.

Display the different interpretations around a copy of the poem. This short film will be relevant for teaching English at primary school.