Poem
noun
A piece of writing where words are creatively chosen and arranged for their sound, imagery, rhythm and meaning, often in a defined structure like stanzas or verses.
Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken' is one of my favorite poems.
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- write a poem
- read a poem
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Literary,Poetic
noun
A work of art or music that has qualities that are strong, beautiful, or evocative, like a written poem.
The sunset was a poem in the sky, with colors mixing and blending into each other.
Often appears as...
- poem of nature
- poem of art
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Idiomatic
noun
A piece of writing where words are creatively chosen and arranged for their sound, imagery, rhythm and meaning, often in a defined structure like stanzas or verses.
Robert Frost's 'The Road Not Taken' is one of my favorite poems.
Often appears as...
- write a poem
- read a poem
Usage tips
Literary,Poetic
noun
A work of art or music that has qualities that are strong, beautiful, or evocative, like a written poem.
The sunset was a poem in the sky, with colors mixing and blending into each other.
Often appears as...
- poem of nature
- poem of art
Usage tips
Idiomatic
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Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Expression
Poems often convey emotions; feeling the words helps in understanding.
Her poem about longing really touched my heart.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Prose
Remember, a poem is not just any writing; it has a special rhythm or pattern.
Although short, his note wasn't a poem, it lacked verse structure.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Interpretation
Some poems use cultural references; you may need extra info to fully grasp them.
To understand the poem, I had to learn about its historical background.
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where each school can be flourishing tomorrow. That's where children experience life. Or at home, if that's what they choose, to be educated with their families or friends. There's been a lot of talk about dreams over the course of these few days. And I wanted to just very quickly -- I was very struck by Natalie Merchant's songs last night, recovering old poems.
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These included descriptions of scenery and lists of characters, and helped the rhapsode keep their place in the narrative, just as the chorus or bridge of a song helps us to remember the next verses. Because most of the tales were familiar to the audience, it was common to hear the sections of the poem out of order.
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The poet who painted...
and the phonograph. Within that divide, through the creation of his most important contribution to poetry, the calligram, Guillaume Apollinaire built a bridge. Apollinaire created the calligram as a poem picture, a written portrait, a thoughts drawing, and he used it to express his modernism
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Why should you read...
"It is not a novel. Still less an epic poem. Still less a historical chronicle. 'War and Peace' is what the author wanted and was able to express in the form in which it was expressed." It is, in other words, the sum total of Tolstoy's imaginative powers, and nothing less.
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The art of the metaphor...
a small portrait of what it's like to live in this world of change and time, our human fate is to vanish, as surely as that small cricket will, and still, we do what it does. We live, we sing. Sometimes a poem takes a metaphor and extends it,
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What makes a poem … a...
Poets themselves have struggled with this question, often using metaphors to approximate a definition. Is a poem a little machine? A firework? An echo? A dream? Poetry generally has certain recognizable characteristics.
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How did clouds get their...
wrote a series of poems in praise of Howard's clouds, which ended with the memorable lines, "As clouds ascend, are folded, scatter, fall, Let the world think of thee who taught it all,"
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Rediscovering Youth on...
winter I unearthed the box of old family books and found the poem again the important places flipping through dad's old slides it occurred to me that maybe
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Poetry makes people...
right underneath for the love of words it said poetry is like pooping if there's a poem inside you it has to come
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Pony Drift: The British...
them on towards the poem but things don't always go to plan
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Bring on the learning...
where each school can be flourishing tomorrow. That's where children experience life. Or at home, if that's what they choose, to be educated with their families or friends. There's been a lot of talk about dreams over the course of these few days. And I wanted to just very quickly -- I was very struck by Natalie Merchant's songs last night, recovering old poems.
Video examples
Everything you need to...
These included descriptions of scenery and lists of characters, and helped the rhapsode keep their place in the narrative, just as the chorus or bridge of a song helps us to remember the next verses. Because most of the tales were familiar to the audience, it was common to hear the sections of the poem out of order.
Video examples
The poet who painted...
and the phonograph. Within that divide, through the creation of his most important contribution to poetry, the calligram, Guillaume Apollinaire built a bridge. Apollinaire created the calligram as a poem picture, a written portrait, a thoughts drawing, and he used it to express his modernism
Video examples
Why should you read...
"It is not a novel. Still less an epic poem. Still less a historical chronicle. 'War and Peace' is what the author wanted and was able to express in the form in which it was expressed." It is, in other words, the sum total of Tolstoy's imaginative powers, and nothing less.
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The art of the metaphor...
a small portrait of what it's like to live in this world of change and time, our human fate is to vanish, as surely as that small cricket will, and still, we do what it does. We live, we sing. Sometimes a poem takes a metaphor and extends it,
Video examples
What makes a poem … a...
Poets themselves have struggled with this question, often using metaphors to approximate a definition. Is a poem a little machine? A firework? An echo? A dream? Poetry generally has certain recognizable characteristics.
Video examples
How did clouds get their...
wrote a series of poems in praise of Howard's clouds, which ended with the memorable lines, "As clouds ascend, are folded, scatter, fall, Let the world think of thee who taught it all,"
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Rediscovering Youth on...
winter I unearthed the box of old family books and found the poem again the important places flipping through dad's old slides it occurred to me that maybe
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Poetry makes people...
right underneath for the love of words it said poetry is like pooping if there's a poem inside you it has to come
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Pony Drift: The British...
them on towards the poem but things don't always go to plan
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Yehuda Amichai
Israeli Poet
I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Indian Philosopher
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
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Erica Jong
American Novelist
Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Franz Wright
American Poet
For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but I wrote 'The Beforelife' within a year.
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Jill Scott
American Musician
One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And I said, 'Oh, boy. I like this.
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Howard Nemerov
American Poet
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
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Mark Strand
American Poet
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
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Robert Penn Warren
American Novelist
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
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Robert Frost
American Poet
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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Paul Engle
American Poet
The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
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Yehuda Amichai
Israeli Poet
I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Indian Philosopher
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
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Erica Jong
American Novelist
Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Franz Wright
American Poet
For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but I wrote 'The Beforelife' within a year.
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Jill Scott
American Musician
One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And I said, 'Oh, boy. I like this.
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Howard Nemerov
American Poet
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
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Mark Strand
American Poet
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
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Robert Penn Warren
American Novelist
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.
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Robert Frost
American Poet
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
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Paul Engle
American Poet
The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
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