So the title's in French, the pronouns are separated from the antecedents, and some horse is scratching its butt...While Auden asks a lot of his readers, those that take the time to work through the poem often find it fascinating....

This week’s assignment comes from artist Paula McCartney, whose work explores the boundaries between the natural and unnatural. Her assignment asks you to reexamine what those terms even mean by constructing an image of the so-called...

Pupil outcome: I can write an ekphrastic poem inspired by Bruegel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus' and William Carlos Williams's poem of the same name. Key learning points: - William Carlos Williams's 'Landscape with the Fall of...

Pupil outcome: I can write a creative paragraph inspired by W.H. Auden’s ekphrastic poem 'Musée des Beaux Arts'. Key learning points: - W.H. Auden’s poem ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’ is an ekphrastic poem. - An ekphrastic poem is a poem which...

Did modern architecture really begin in the 1920s with the founding of the Bauhaus school? Perhaps. But perhaps the changing landscape of architectural practice and theory throughout the last 200 years is not as straight forward as it...

The first and foremost job of Congress is to spend money — a process that will heat up in the fall. NPR’s Ron Elving explains how it happens and what the number 12 has to do with it. ------------------------------------------------------...