Has "poetic language" changed over the past 100 years?
on December 31st, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

What 21st Century poets would you recommend?
on December 31st, 2008 | 3 answers | 4 people like this

Is modern poetry unique amongst the arts in having a larger number of paractitioners than it does an audience?
on June 11th, 2008 | 2 answers

Which is better for you: reading a great poem by a "Great Poet" or writing a mediocre one yourself?
on June 11th, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

If a poet were elected President of the World would the world be a better place?
on June 11th, 2008 | 5 answers | 4 people like this

Is a poet more like a priest or a bricklayer?
on June 11th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Is there any difference between reading a new book (i.e. published in the last year) that you love and an old book (i.e. some point in...
on May 4th, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

Aren't generalisations the greatest thing ever?
on April 12th, 2008 | One answer

Are most people wary of saying that opinions are "right", "wrong", "true", "false"?
on April 12th, 2008 | 6 answers | 3 people like this

Is your reading gender-biased? Do you mainly read books by authors the same sex as you?
on April 12th, 2008 | 10 answers | 6 people like this

Are there any benefits to reading a contemporary book by a living writer as opposed to an old book by a dead one?
on April 11th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

"e. e. cummings" or "E. E. Cummings" - which did he use? Which version are his books credited to?
on April 7th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Why is it socially acceptable in the UK to say that you are "useless at maths" and for someone to be proud of their...
on April 1st, 2008 | 3 answers | 4 people like this

What is the most bizarre nursery rhyme you know?
on March 30th, 2008 | 19 answers | 9 people like this

What is the relationship between nursery rhymes and "proper" poetry?
on March 30th, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

Hey-diddle-diddle: innocent nursery rhyme or something sinister?
on March 30th, 2008 | One answer

What a poet's basic building blocks: words, images or thoughts?
on March 26th, 2008 | 6 answers | 4 people like this

Would a great book be as great if we knew nothing about the author? How important is the author of a book once that book has been finished?
on March 26th, 2008 | 4 answers

Was Shelley wrong to say that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world"?
on March 26th, 2008 | 2 answers

Why do people say they've "studied" such-and-such a subject when what they really mean is they've read a few books...
on March 20th, 2008 | 6 answers | 4 people like this

Millions of people write poetry, but only thousands buy it - why?
on March 20th, 2008 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Would somebody please remove these cutleries from my knees?
on March 19th, 2008 | no answers

When and why did English poets stop alliterating and start rhyming?
on March 16th, 2008 | One answer

Who was the last person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for their poetry?
on March 16th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

The Anglo-American poet Thom Gunn complained about the "drab norm" of free verse. Is it time for poets to start experimenting...
on March 15th, 2008 | One answer | 2 people like this

"First thought, best thought." Do you agree?
on March 15th, 2008 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What is the ballad form?
on March 15th, 2008 | One answer

Where does the title of the Coen Brother's "No Country for Old Men" come from?
on March 15th, 2008 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

Genesis 6:4 - some translations say "giants", some say "the fallen ones", some say "the Nephilim", some say...
on March 1st, 2008 | 9 answers | 4 people like this

Is the study of evolution closer to history than biology? Similarly with cosmology, has it more in common with history than physics?
on March 1st, 2008 | 2 answers

If (and it's a big "if") the world is split between science and religion, where does philosophy fit in?
on March 1st, 2008 | 21 answers | 12 people like this

Which century produced the best novels?
on March 1st, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Is a prose poem a contradiction?
on March 1st, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What is wrong with "anthropomorphism"?
on February 16th, 2008 | 9 answers | 3 people like this

What do you think "experimental" writing is? What's experimental to you?
on February 16th, 2008 | One answer | 3 people like this

Is it possible to be a great poet *and* a great novellist? Can you only be good at one of them? Are there examples of people as famous...
on February 16th, 2008 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

Putting a question mark at the end turns a statement into a question?
on February 13th, 2008 | 7 answers | 8 people like this

Who won this year's TS Eliot prize for poetry?
on February 6th, 2008 | One answer | 3 people like this

Was William Blake a wee bit mad?
on February 6th, 2008 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Who is the main character in Italo Calvino's novel "If on a winter's night a traveller"?
on February 6th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What imaginary place would you most like to travel to?
on February 3rd, 2008 | 29 answers | 21 people like this

If you read poetry, what styles do you prefer to read? (Confessional, narrative, lyric, political, philosophical, humorous, etc, ...)
on February 3rd, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Could you please write a two line poem in your local dialect? (I want to read what you speak like...)
on February 3rd, 2008 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

What poets did you study at high school?
on February 3rd, 2008 | 2 answers | 5 people like this

Do you think a list of "favourite poets" will contain more dead people than a list of "favourite novelists"?
on January 30th, 2008 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

How can I travel to Pulau-pulau Bompa?
on January 28th, 2008 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What's the best way to deal with someone who claims they are a genius even though the evidence suggests otherwise?
on January 1st, 2008 | 15 answers | 10 people like this

How important is a knowledge of prosody to understanding poetry? How important is it to writing poetry?
on January 1st, 2008 | 2 answers | 3 people like this

What are the major differences between a Shakesperian and Petrarchean sonnet?
on January 1st, 2008 | One answer | 7 people like this

What is a ghazal?
on January 1st, 2008 | 4 answers | 8 people like this

What are iambs, trochees, dactyls and anapests?
on January 1st, 2008 | 3 answers | 6 people like this

Why haven't you written something on your profile page?
on December 31st, 2007 | 8 answers | 5 people like this

Do you have a favourite tree? Where is it?
on December 29th, 2007 | 6 answers | 4 people like this

Can free-verse rhyme?
on December 29th, 2007 | One answer | 2 people like this

What is the last word in each of the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy?
on December 29th, 2007 | One answer | 2 people like this

Which British poet had a poet-mother who died in the 60s and poet-father who was British Poet Laureate?
on December 29th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Does being a poet automatically make you "interesting"?
on December 26th, 2007 | 9 answers | 4 people like this

What were Hamlet's dying words?
on December 25th, 2007 | 2 answers | 4 people like this

What was Thomas Hardy's profession before becoming a writer?
on December 25th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What type of non-fiction books do you prefer to read?
on December 25th, 2007 | 8 answers | 5 people like this

If you believe you are right, should you always argue your case fully? (Even if it means you may get accused of "always trying to...
on December 23rd, 2007 | 7 answers | 3 people like this

The Archbishop of Wales has attacked "atheistic fundamentalism" - what are your views? (News story in my first answer)
on December 22nd, 2007 | 20 answers | 8 people like this

Why did Emily Dickinson use dashes instead of "proper" punctuation in her poems?
on December 21st, 2007 | 2 answers | 4 people like this

How many AB atheists will be taking part in Christmas celebrations next week?
on December 21st, 2007 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Can a poem be a great poem if you disagree with everything it says?
on December 21st, 2007 | One answer

Is a poem independent of the poet who wrote it?
on December 21st, 2007 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

What are your feelings on poems about poetry?
on December 21st, 2007 | One answer

Should poetry and politics ever mix?
on December 16th, 2007 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

Is poetry pointless?
on December 2nd, 2007 | 22 answers | 13 people like this

Is physics more open-minded than biology?
on November 26th, 2007 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

From a scientific perspective: are memes real? If so, what are they? If not, are they scientific?
on November 26th, 2007 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

Ezra Pound: great poet or shameless opportunist?
on November 23rd, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

How would astrologers do their charts on a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri?
on November 10th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Dylan Thomas said: "Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather be in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie...
on November 10th, 2007 | 4 answers | 4 people like this

When did poetry stop being an oral art? Did it become something else in the process?
on November 7th, 2007 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

Is concrete poetry just exploded prose?
on November 7th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Are your best poems about you and your life and your loves, or about something else?
on November 7th, 2007 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

Is it wrong for a poem never to be spoken aloud?
on November 7th, 2007 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

As an art form, is cinema closer to the novel, the photograph or the theatre?
on November 4th, 2007 | 5 answers

Are you a yooz-er or a y'all-er?
on November 3rd, 2007 | 7 answers | 3 people like this

Can a fool be made a genius by reading the right books?
on October 30th, 2007 | 9 answers | 4 people like this

For those who think you can't translate poetry because of its nature - do you think it should remain untranslated?
on October 30th, 2007 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

When people say they are writers why are they (999 times out of 1000) fiction writers and not non-fiction writers?
on October 28th, 2007 | 6 answers | 1 person likes this

Why is sentimentality in art frowned upon so much?
on October 22nd, 2007 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Should songwriters (e.g. Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen) be eligible for the Nobel Prize for Literature?
on October 21st, 2007 | 5 answers | 4 people like this

Ted Hughes or Sylvia Plath? Elizabeth Barrett or Robert Browning?
on October 21st, 2007 | 8 answers | 3 people like this

How do Bible literalists understand Psalm 104:5? Do they believe the earth does not move? Or do they accept the passage as metaphorical...
on October 20th, 2007 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

In many cultures poets are said to "make" poems. Are poets "makers"? Is a poem a product?
on October 12th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Doris Lessing is only the 11th woman to wind the Nobel Prize for Literature - are men better writers than women? Or has the Nobel...
on October 12th, 2007 | 2 answers | 4 people like this

Can we know a poem completely if we know nothing about the poet?
on October 7th, 2007 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

What poets do you dislike? Why?
on October 7th, 2007 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

People are happy lots of the time - so why are there less happy poems than sad ones?
on October 7th, 2007 | 5 answers | 4 people like this

Have you asked any questions that, so far, have no answers but that several people have given points to?
on October 7th, 2007 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

It's National Poetry Day here in the UK and it's only noticeable if you know where to go and notice it... What would you do to...
on October 4th, 2007 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Thinking about the formats we've had music on: are CDs better than MP3s? Is vinyl better than CD? Are 78s better than vinyl? Are old...
on September 29th, 2007 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Are you a "Dark Matter Theory" or "Modified Newtonian Physics" kind of person? Do you create something invisible to...
on September 29th, 2007 | 5 answers | 4 people like this

Think about the physics before answering - does a rainbow exist if nobody is looking at it?
on September 24th, 2007 | 6 answers | 1 person likes this

Who wrote the first free verse poem in the English language?
on September 23rd, 2007 | no answers

When did Modernism start? Should we call it something else now?
on September 23rd, 2007 | no answers

What was the first "modern novel"?
on September 23rd, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Do you like experimental novels? If so, what ones have you read? What made them "experimental"?
on September 23rd, 2007 | 5 answers

Pablo Neruda asked: "How do the oranges divide up / sunlight in the orange tree?" Well, how do they?
on September 23rd, 2007 | no answers

Numbers 31:13-18. Why do the virgins get to live?
on September 21st, 2007 | 7 answers | 4 people like this

Why would anyone ever want to be a poet...?
on September 4th, 2007 | 5 answers | 4 people like this

Is modesty a virtue or a fault?
on August 31st, 2007 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

For whatever art form you practice - do you have your own style? Describe it...
on August 31st, 2007 | 8 answers | 5 people like this

Are you on last.fm? If so, what's the average age of your neighbours? Is it very different from your own age?
on August 27th, 2007 | 5 answers | 2 people like this

Miroslav Holub claimed: "In everyday practice, poetry is divided into good poetry, which is written by ourselves, and bad poetry,...
on August 22nd, 2007 | One answer | 4 people like this

Wilfrid Owen said: "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity." WB Yeats said: "Passive suffering...
on August 22nd, 2007 | 3 answers | 5 people like this

The feminist Germaine Greer pointed out that as women have become more emancipated they have shaved off more hair (facial, underarm,...
on August 15th, 2007 | no answers | 3 people like this

The feminist Germaine Greer pointed out that as women have become more emancipated they have shaved off more hair (facial, underarm,...
on August 15th, 2007 | 5 answers

Can you write a *serious* limerick? (i.e. no humour or silliness, and it doesn't need to be good!)
on August 8th, 2007 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

For those who say "it's not what I'd call art"... what *do* you call art?
on August 7th, 2007 | 2 answers | 4 people like this

If a piece of writing is indistuingishable from prose but has been split into short lines, is it a poem i.e. what should a poem *sound*...
on August 5th, 2007 | One answer | 2 people like this

Pablo Neruda asked: "Is 4 the same 4 for everybody? Are all sevens equal?" Why is "4" written as a number and...
on August 5th, 2007 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Pablo Neruda asked: "Where is the child I was, still inside me or gone?" How would you reply to him?
on August 5th, 2007 | 6 answers | 5 people like this

Mahjong causes epilepsy... whould've thought? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6931119.stm
on August 5th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Do you prefer posed or unposed photographs? A picture created to show-off the subject or a picture of the subject unaware of being...
on August 5th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Why should we trust your opinions in any question you answer? Who are you to answer questions on certain topics?
on July 30th, 2007 | 4 answers | 5 people like this

Does a good photograph have to be good technically? Can it rise above being blurred, over-exposed, etc.
on July 30th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Black & White or Colour? Why?
on July 30th, 2007 | One answer

Why has there been more confessional poetry over the last 60 years than in the centuries before? Have these generations had more to...
on July 29th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

It has been proved (by Kurt Godel) that there are problems in mathematics and logic that are true but cannot be proved (ever). Does this...
on July 29th, 2007 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

A theorem in modal logic says that "if it is possible that G is necessary, then G is necessary." If G = God, does this mean...
on July 29th, 2007 | 5 answers | 2 people like this

"Tolkein, while highly imaginative and intelligent, wasn't a good writer." Your thoughts?
on July 25th, 2007 | 5 answers | 2 people like this

What's your favourite song about casual drug use?
on July 22nd, 2007 | 25 answers | 12 people like this

When I turn my head to the left - I can see the moon over my village - the sun is getting ready to set and some distant windows are...
on July 22nd, 2007 | 11 answers | 7 people like this

Oh really... why do I bother?
on July 21st, 2007 | 3 answers | 3 people like this

What's your favourite old photograph? {Doesn't need to be a famous one...} Upload, so we can see!
on July 21st, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Do you have a favourite book of travel writing? If so, what is it?
on July 21st, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

"High IQ" or "Good general knowledge?"
on July 20th, 2007 | 7 answers | 3 people like this

Would you like to upload a photograph here for us to comment/critique?
on July 20th, 2007 | 23 answers | 10 people like this

To honour the new Art/Photography category (thank you!) question number one: what differentiates an "art" photograph from a...
on July 20th, 2007 | 2 answers | 5 people like this

Which art form is the most succesful?
on July 19th, 2007 | 2 answers

What are your thoughts on the use of adjectives in poetry?
on July 19th, 2007 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Is intellectualism in the arts a form of social exclusion?
on July 19th, 2007 | One answer | 2 people like this

Who likes shoegazing music?
on July 18th, 2007 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Maths: I have two lines, one is twice the length of the other. How many more points are there on the longer one than the shorter one?
on July 18th, 2007 | 9 answers | 3 people like this

What are some books that have been banned over the centuries? For what reasons?
on July 18th, 2007 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

How interested should we be in the life of a poet?
on July 18th, 2007 | One answer

Does conceptual art need to be physically realised?
on July 18th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

AB have a "Pork" category, yet they rejected my suggestion for a Photography category in Arts?!? Is this right? *hangs head in...
on July 17th, 2007 | 5 answers | 4 people like this

Which better represents Life and Society - figurative painting or photography?
on July 17th, 2007 | 2 answers

Recent research suggests that A Lover's Complaint was not written by William Shakespeare - how do they know? what would it mean if...
on July 17th, 2007 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

WH Auden claimed that poets only write for their fellow-poets, that the only readers of poetry were also its writers - do you agree?
on July 17th, 2007 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Can photography be Art?
on July 16th, 2007 | 39 answers | 19 people like this

Walter Pater wrote that all art aspires to the condition of music. What do you think he meant by this?
on July 16th, 2007 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

A group of Pygmy musicians - attending the Festival of Pan-African Music - have been housed in a zoo in the Congo by organisers who feel...
on July 15th, 2007 | 2 answers

Headline on BBC webiste: "Butterfly shows evolution at work " What do you think? (I'll link to story in first answer.)
on July 15th, 2007 | 2 answers

Do you prefer questions that a) make you think or b) you can answer easily?
on July 14th, 2007 | 10 answers | 10 people like this

Logically speaking, could you answer this question with only two words? What about three?
on July 14th, 2007 | 31 answers | 7 people like this

The first nursery rhyme you can remember is.....?
on July 12th, 2007 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

Would you trust a singer who had never listened to any music but their own? A novellist who had never read a novel? If not, why read a...
on July 12th, 2007 | 5 answers

What proportion of a poem should ask questions? How much should provide answers? Are there any poems which neither ask nor answer?
on July 10th, 2007 | One answer | 2 people like this

Is anyone else fed up researching answers in books and citing them? You rarely get thanked (and occasionally downrated...)
on July 10th, 2007 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

Your two favourite rhyming words are ...?
on July 7th, 2007 | 6 answers | 3 people like this

Who is your favourite photographer?
on July 5th, 2007 | 15 answers | 7 people like this

What difference does it make?
on July 4th, 2007 | 2 answers

Genesis 38:8-10. What exactly does Onan do to displease the Lord: "spill his seed" or "not give his seed to his...
on July 4th, 2007 | 10 answers | 4 people like this

Do you prefer poems about the poet's inside world or poems about the poet's view of the external world?
on July 1st, 2007 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What's better: poems about sex or poems about love?
on July 1st, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

In a translated poem, who really wrote it? Should we call it a) the same poem or b) a poem based on another poem?
on July 1st, 2007 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Whose opinions aren't valid?
on June 29th, 2007 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

Is greyhound racing a sport?
on June 29th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Why do a higher percentage of people support a literal interpretation of the bible in 2007 than they did, say, 500 years ago?
on June 23rd, 2007 | 2 answers

Who is the greater Spanish-language poet - Pablo Neruda or Frederico Garcia Lorca?
on June 23rd, 2007 | One answer

How many poetry books do you own?
on June 20th, 2007 | 21 answers | 7 people like this

With the new "level rescaling" essentially making a nonsense of the earning of points who agrees that levels and points should...
on May 12th, 2007 | One answer | 2 people like this

Would you rather be more intelligent or more beautiful?
on May 11th, 2007 | 13 answers | 3 people like this

Does a poet have any unique role in Western society? If so, what is it?
on May 7th, 2007 | 5 answers | 1 person likes this

If you go to the bother of writing a question you want answered that doesn't get answered immediately, is it wrong to *bump* it back...
on May 4th, 2007 | 4 answers

How do you recognise a bad poem?
on May 1st, 2007 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

Jorge L Borges wrote a story in which a character believes Judas to be the son of God and the true saviour of humanity i.e. "God...
on April 30th, 2007 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

The first 8 or so pages on the main page are filled with religious questions - could we please have some silly ones for a change?...
on April 21st, 2007 | no answers | 1 person likes this

Is America obsessed by religion?
on April 21st, 2007 | 6 answers | 6 people like this

What's special about poetry from your country? How does it differ from other nations' poetry?
on April 16th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

All countries have had their share of genocide and slavery over the centuries, but which is the bigger stain in America's past:...
on April 14th, 2007 | 8 answers | 3 people like this

A book titled "The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification" has been named as the oddest...
on April 14th, 2007 | 2 answers

Termites, UK scientists have recently suggested, are actually a species of cockroach. What other unusual family histories do you know?
on April 14th, 2007 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

In "Lola" by The Kinks - *is* Lola a man?
on April 11th, 2007 | 6 answers | 3 people like this

How much of the original poet remains in a translated poem?
on April 9th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Pablo Neruda wrote a whole book of nonsnese questions. Have you read it?
on April 9th, 2007 | no answers | 2 people like this

WH Auden said: "Poetry makes nothing happen". Do you agree?
on April 9th, 2007 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

How important is it that a work of art be *original* or *new* or *groundbreaking*?
on April 7th, 2007 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Why are novels seen as the pinnacle of "art" writing in Western society? What about the short-story, the essay, reportage,...
on April 7th, 2007 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Does anyone know what this symbol represents on a British OS map? (Pasted as answer.)
on April 6th, 2007 | One answer

The Scottish poet WS Graham asked "What is Language using us for?" What do you think?
on April 1st, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Would you object if you found one of your photographs (taken from photobucket, flickr, etc.) on someone else's website without being...
on March 31st, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What are the main differences / similarities between the "creative process" and "scientific method"?
on March 30th, 2007 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

In a society where everyone is "entitled to their opinion", what place is there for Right and Wrong?
on March 27th, 2007 | 13 answers | 10 people like this

Do we live in a WYSIWYG univers?
on March 27th, 2007 | 3 answers

What's with this "Patty" business? In Ireland and Scotland we say "Paddy".... Is it "Patty" everywhere...
on March 25th, 2007 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

What's your favourite song that isn't sung in English?
on March 25th, 2007 | 36 answers | 14 people like this

How soon *is* now?
on March 25th, 2007 | no answers | 11 people like this

It's said that all roads lead to Rome. But where does the one outside your house lead to?
on March 25th, 2007 | 5 answers | 1 person likes this

What are some of the things you really *must* do before you die?
on March 25th, 2007 | 24 answers | 4 people like this

Where is the remotest place you've ever been?
on March 24th, 2007 | 8 answers | 2 people like this

Do you ever use Socratic irony in arguments?
on March 24th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What is the link between virtuoso displays of skill and virtuoso displays of creativity? How do both combine (if they do at all) to...
on March 24th, 2007 | One answer

Wittgenstein, in translation, said: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." Do you agree?
on March 24th, 2007 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

How long does a 'moment' last? Does the answer vary depending on whether or not you believe in the duality of body and soul?
on March 24th, 2007 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

Has anyone else noticed the two creation myths in Genesis? This was pointed out to me by a Catholic priest. The one at Gen 1:1and then...
on March 24th, 2007 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Did the Magi visit the stable?
on March 24th, 2007 | 5 answers | 4 people like this

Where did Jesus get his Y chromosome from?
on March 23rd, 2007 | 12 answers | 10 people like this

The German philosopher Schopenhauer said: "A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short."...
on March 23rd, 2007 | 5 answers | 2 people like this

Is 0 odd or even?
on March 23rd, 2007 | 12 answers | 3 people like this

Riddle: I disappear when you stand up - what am I?
on March 22nd, 2007 | 9 answers | 6 people like this

In what way is the smile I smiled yesterday the same as the smile I smiled today? Is it the same as the smile I smiled as a child?
on March 22nd, 2007 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

Do mathematical objects (circles, sets, numbers, vector spaces, fractals, etc.) exist independently of the human mind? Or do they only...
on March 22nd, 2007 | 6 answers | 1 person likes this

Ok, after my failure to get a list of 10 living poets (whose books I can buy on Amazon), can anyone list me 4 living poets whose books I...
on March 22nd, 2007 | 6 answers | 1 person likes this

Who can name 10 living poets? (And I mean ones whose books I can buy on Amazon...)
on March 21st, 2007 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Can you write good poetry without ever having read good poetry?
on March 21st, 2007 | 10 answers | 4 people like this

A British idea of American people is that they don't *get* irony (as opposed to sarcasm). Do Americans disagree? Have any British...
on March 19th, 2007 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

Are there any categories of questions you just don't want to get involved in here? (I'm always wary of answering anything...
on March 18th, 2007 | 7 answers | 3 people like this

There are over 900,000,000 in Africa. How many of you are on Answerbag?
on March 17th, 2007 | 5 answers | 2 people like this

Is it possible to describe Africa in one word? If you can't in one, try two...
on March 17th, 2007 | 32 answers | 10 people like this

Should the international community take any immediate action against Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe? If yes, what should that...
on March 17th, 2007 | 4 answers | 3 people like this

Are most answers submitted on Answerbag factual ones or people's opinions? Are most questions asked seeking information/facts or...
on March 12th, 2007 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Do the wealthy have a moral obligation to help the poor in society?
on March 12th, 2007 | no answers | 4 people like this

Does *everyone* like asking rhetorical questions?
on March 11th, 2007 | 8 answers | 6 people like this

Who likes Calexico? (I only ask because I'm listening to them now... )
on March 11th, 2007 | no answers

What are invalid subjects for poetry?
on March 10th, 2007 | 7 answers | 3 people like this

What are valid subjects for poems?
on March 10th, 2007 | 3 answers

When was Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds best period?
on March 10th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Has anyone got a photograph of the area they live in they'd like to share?
on March 10th, 2007 | 22 answers | 8 people like this

The Velvet Underground - Lou Reed's or John Cale's solo career?
on March 10th, 2007 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

Who wants to share a photo of where they stay?
on March 10th, 2007 | 7 answers | 4 people like this

Who's been a tourist in Scotland? And what did you do when there? Or here, as it's where I am... :)
on March 10th, 2007 | 6 answers | 2 people like this

To rhyme or not to rhyme?
on March 10th, 2007 | 10 answers | 4 people like this

Does it annoy you when British singers sing in American accents?
on March 10th, 2007 | 9 answers | 2 people like this

In the 21st Century does poetry actually matter any more?
on March 10th, 2007 | 7 answers | 3 people like this

Why was Marshall Mather's question "What is 2+2?" rejected as nonsense? This question is of interest to mathematicians and...
on March 3rd, 2007 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

Is anyone else really bored just now...?
on February 19th, 2007 | no answers

Wednesday 21st February 2007 marks the 100 anniversary of the birth of WH Auden. How will you be celebrating the birth of man with a face...
on February 19th, 2007 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

To writers of poetry: when writing , how much do you think about the sound of your poem? (i.e rhythm, alliteration, assonance, etc.) Or...
on February 16th, 2007 | One answer | 1 person likes this

To any poetry writers out there: how do you feel your poems are representative of the poetry your country has produced?
on February 14th, 2007 | 2 answers

What was the last book of poems you bought?
on February 11th, 2007 | 16 answers | 3 people like this

What was the last thing you copied on your computer? Press ctrl+v and let's see what it is...
on February 10th, 2007 | 17 answers | 7 people like this

Following discussion in relation to another question: is blank verse just a matter of opinion or is it a structured form of poetry like a...
on February 8th, 2007 | One answer

Here in Scotland we have recently celebrated Burns' night. Who's your country's national poet? If you don't have one...
on January 28th, 2007 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Isn't it a shame that more people write poetry than read it?
on January 26th, 2007 | 7 answers | 2 people like this

How would Wordsworth's poetry have differed if he had never had a sister i.e. how important was Dorothy Wordsworth?
on January 25th, 2007 | One answer

How significant should line breaks be in the reciting of a poem?
on January 24th, 2007 | One answer

If the Romantic movement had been called something different (e.g. the Naturists) would they have been (and still be) as popular?
on January 20th, 2007 | One answer