A simile is the explicit comparison of one thing to another, using the word "as" or "like" -- as when Robert Burns famously declares: My luve is like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: My ...
else, and is like the components of everything. Albert Goldbarth is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and has won numerous awards, including two National Book Critics Circle Awards. He is ...
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Reading a poem by Robert Hass is like stepping into the ocean when the ...