Cambridge students were asked in an exam to write about a poem which included no words, just punctuation. How would you go about making sense of it, asks Jon Kelly. Turn over your papers, please.

to love, even briefly, the elk of your own tongue. We become a myth that will cleave in the middle. I admire spooling lotus after lotus after. Fragment of my body: brown edges. The whorl of a question ...

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In a poem, a writer uses language, form and structure to present an idea in a new way; the words on the page become a way to communicate between the poet’s mind and the reader's. When reading poetry a ...

A poem with no words, and only punctuation, left Cambridge English university students baffled. Cambridge University English Literature students were left shocked and baffled after opening their ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...