Merle Haggard has always been a stellar lyricist and singer, but this video proves that the man also had quite the knack for penning a poem.

Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Here’s a poem about patience, about self-control, about the need to conserve ...

In the poem, Plath explores the mirror image as a doorway to the unconscious, and it turns out to be a paradoxical situation. The mirror contains both an image of herself, but also not her.