Verse written centuries ago still resonates with an audience who appreciate the wisdom of the ages, Chen Meiling reports. Chinese poems have found a way to bloom in the hearts of people centuries ...

For centuries, the Yangtze porpoise was a common sight on the river it is named after. Now, the freshwater mammal is critically endangered, rarely sighted, and only found in a tiny proportion of the ...

A close-up of a smiling Yangtze finless porpoise at the Baiji Dolphinarium of the Institute of Hydrobiology. (Wang Chaoqun/Chinese Academy of Sciences) (CN) — The ever-smiling Yangtze finless porpoise ...

Virgil was one of Rome's most prolific poets, but how much was he influenced by ancient Greece and Greek writers like Homer?

Love poems didn’t start as private confessions. For much of their history, they were closer to public performances—tools for politics, status, ...

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If you paid any attention at all in high school English, you probably remember iambic pentameter, most likely from reading Shakespeare, and perhaps even other meters like trochaic tetrameter (the ...

There's something rather poetic about a service designed to breathe life back into poetry getting resurrected after all these ...

There have been recent efforts towards studying Jibbali, with Oman's Vision 2040 economic plan prioritising heritage preservation — - Against the backdrop of southern Oman's lush mountains, men in ...

Sure, you can go with the obvious of a dozen roses, a box of chocolates and few would refuse diamonds. But on Valentine's Day, a certain sort of romantic will appreciate poetry. Though I would never ...