and heard all sound different? What about rounded and wounded, or grieve and sieve? As The Poke points out, a poem written in 1920 perfectly encapsulates the baffling nature of English.

Through her poetry, Limón grieves moments she won ... hearing the weather change and the sounds of nature" is essential, because after all, "all of that goes into my work, the world alive and ...

Advertisement The verse is so tuneful, the sounds of words ... are debunked. The poem turns boldly from the courtly, imaginative, and rather giddy games of Love and Nature to a sober assessment ...

Like an exile in a self-made skiff in the middle of a tortured sea, nature is what you have done ... through the tunnel of flowers. This poem has been excerpted from the collection You Are Here ...

This National Day, ST has captured nine sounds that resonate with the Singaporean experience. See how many you recognise.

It happens every time we read (not just poetry, also novels), every time we see a painting, every time we hear music as music and not just as sound: we suspend our disbelief and enter into ...