Using their analytical skills when interacting with stanzas for the first time helps students uncover deeper meaning in ...

but it’s also one of his most beautiful and iconic love poems. Want to express deep affection? Forget those funny roses-are-red poems and start with one of the English language’s literary giants.

Gaius Valerius Catullus was a Roman poet who lived from 84 to 54 B.C.E. He was known for his scathing wit and for being both earthy and intellectual, and this funny, short poem, which still rings ...