How To Use Poem In A Sentence

The poems, plays, and essays of the committed cultural nationalist are characterized by a markedly hortatory or didactic manner.
It is just as well that this doubly weighty volume, which offers a lot of poems for the pound, tends to reward the effort it demands. The Times Literary Supplement
‘Break, break, break,’ for instance, is a bitter poem on unrecompensed, pointless loss, but it achieves its power and makes its point very indirectly, largely through structural implications.
The professor improvised a poem in the class.
Outwardly, Gina didn't seem troubled - she babysat for neighbors, wrote cute poems, and smiled radiantly for pictures.

The highly textured surface of these poems does not, however, obscure the continuous emotional undercurrent.
A tanka is a 31 syllable poem that pre-dates the Haiku. BC Bloggers
Beddoes as a writer of brief lyric poems, songs exhumed from the bodies of his dramas, and for the bizarre, sprawling Death's Jest Book. Introduction
However, the same writer made a poem on the tricks of countryfolk, which is by no means devoid of merit. The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Tusking," published in March 1986, was the first of his poems to appear in the TLS: a powerful frightening parable of coloniser and colonised, it is untypical of Imlah's work only in its short lines. Archive 2009-04-01
Tefillah (Prayer) contains poems specifically written for a siddur (prayer book). Marge Piercy: Statement
The poem, in Italian, is an extended or "tailed" sonnet, with a coda of six lines appended to the standard 14. Archive 2010-01-01
I believed that there was such a question and that it was up to us, students of the poem, to formulate it. The Empty Family
A flanking attack on Antigonus' troops from Spartan light infantry stationed in the Oenus valley was thwarted by an aggressive cavalry attack led by the Achaean general Philopoemen.
The writer of the poems marks parental rejection with astounding empathy.
One effort was an adulatory poem, Le Siecle de Louis le Grand, in which he claimed that Louis XIV's world equalled, and surpassed, that of the ancient world.
Lawson's ‘The Teams’ is still one of my favourite poems - partly because I know how accurate was Lawson's description of the taciturn, hard-working teamsters.
she recited a poem
His poems were published under the title of 'Love and Reason'.
Caroline Kennedy anthologized these poems, but they're our American heritage. 'American Scrapbook' draws on Kennedy family's favorite poems
He is a first-class pianist and organist and has composed music and written and published his own poems.
This week's poem is from the book of shortlisted and highly commended poems. Times, Sunday Times
The boy gabbled off the poem as though he neither understood nor enjoyed it.
She read a poem entitled 'The Apple Tree'.
The program started off ascetically with "Six Studies in English Folksong" which the program warned us were "very melancholic," continued with a song cycle for violin and tenor called "Along the Field" to poems by A.E. Houseman, and finished off the first half with insanely Pre-Raphaelite lushness to a song cycle set to Dante Gabriel Rosetti poems called "The House of Life. Thomas Glenn Sings Vaughan Williams
The title of the first poem refers to the resourcefulness required to ride out tropical storms.
But the poem appears to commend long-suffering endurance and to suggest that mourners may be silently visited by Divine Grace.
Poems and hymns of the Hebrew people are expressed in Psalms.
The name of this friendly looking restaurant, is taken from the title of a sombre poem “Le bateau ivre”. Serment - French Word-A-Day
Brooke's poems were published in 1911, and after a year wandering in the North America and the South Seas, he was commissioned into the Royal Navy.
The poem outlined his experience of being gender-fluid and sprang from being confronted with old photos at his grandparents' house.
In the poem, Hector's body, attached to Achilles' chariot and dragged around Troy, cannot be mutilated because Aphrodite has anointed it with ambrosia.
The poems of Homer have the most perfect metre, the hexameter, which is also called heroic. Essays and Miscellanies
But, immortalized in stone, evincing sand-cast mastery of poem! Revenge poem for Sara, following her disparaging remarks about my unfamiliarity with the literary history of the East Coast
Piers the plowman is the name assumed by Robert or William Langland, in a historico-satirical poem so called. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
In the process he made some of the most beautiful poems ever written in the English language.
The poems come to us across a great chronological and cultural divide, and the reader is reminded of this fact by the occasional archaic word and by the unusual compounding, both of which impart a faintly disorienting tone.
He tried to work off the poem as his own.
A poem of 14 lines in iambic pentameter, which follows the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efefgg. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet
Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
The flattish factuality of the poem well conveys its embarrassed self-accusation.
Defy the tempest & the storm deride is not in the original nor is it good. ποθος [19] is hardly fierce desire — & all such expressions of ram-cat raptures are bad. by the by she a dark lanthern might have deprived us of this poem. your storm is very good — zounds I sweat at the bare idea of the Letter 138
The poem can be read as a protest against war.
She reminds us that French revolutionary leaders were often portrayed as wild beasts or savage tigers by critics at the time and that the tiger in the poem is located in a nightmarish industrial landscape.
This latest collection, which brings a host of unpublished poems into the public domain, is the perfect marriage of old and new.
The path is situated along the Tejo river and the poem is an homage to the river in the writer's home town. Portugal's New Bike Paths (VIDEO)
They were asked to write an appreciation of a poem of their choice.
It seems odd that a poet so keen - perhaps even desperate - to reach across time, to provide us with such realism, should do so by writing wilfully unreadable poems.
But the overall effect of the poem is one of denial, fabricated intimacy and an insulting treatment of a situation that in our culture has already been spiritualized and depersonalized to death.
A metro poem has as many verses as your trip has stations, minus one.
The first and last are love poems, but the second is a dirge for an Irish hero.
The ballade, full of dramatic intensity, mainly inspired by Polish epic poems, was a new musical form invented by Chopin. Chopin's 'Soul and Heart'
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This, I believe, is the essence of the poem; you believe that through the consummation of a marriage of mind and nature it is possible to create paradise here on earth.
Read the poem in connection with this selection.] [Footnote 5: The Janiculum is a high hill across the Tiber from Latin for Beginners
The poem will be etched in the memorial stone - a tangible acknowledgement of the loss of life and accompanying grief, says Appleton.
How would one teach that poem to a future generation that had come to regard the word as a piece of raillery?
_ What you call epigram gives life and spirit to grave works, and seems principally wanted to relieve a long poem. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
Some of her poems had been rendered into English.
The poem encapsulates many of the central themes of her writing.
His important poems were mostly published at this time, in 1650 and 1655, in the collection which he named 'Silex Scintillans' (The Flaming Flint), a title explained by the frontispiece, which represents a flinty heart glowing under the lightning stroke of God's call. A History of English Literature
Had the acetate been used, the imposition of the poems directly over the images of the subjects 'faces would have integrated word and image but would have resulted in considerable obscuration of both the text and the faces. Gerard Malanga's Journey From Andy Warhol's Stage Dancer To Factory Poet
He asks to think again, for example, about the relationship between read and heard versions of a poem, noting that Shelley's "poem suggests that rhyme somehow operates inherently within articulation itself, even when, or especially when, the ear is unaware," but wondering where that leaves us in our analysis of more "regular" poems. Introduction
'Driven To Tears' is the Latin poem by Ausonius ( "Cum glaucus opaco/respondet colli fluvius, frondere videntur/fluminei latices et palmite consitus anmis ..."). Zenyatta Mondatta
The third part compare the differences between the two country art song through literature background, combine of the poem and music, language character, nationality feature and performance style.
It isn't easy being a red-hot lover these days, but take heart, help is at hand for those with a penchant for penning a love poem.
I remain honored to have had a long poem of mine that I really wanted published SOMEWHERE to wind up getting published in the CLIFFS Soundings Iit/art mag Norbert Blei mentioned in his essay on Henry Denander. Henry denander | 6 poems on writing, writers, fatherhood, marriage, jazz, jazz musicians, fame & much more « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
Reading a novel or a poem or a collection of essays requires only that you bring home the book, curl up in your favorite chair and begin.
Randall's first publications in 1965 were literally broadsides - single poems printed on large sheets of paper that sold for fifty cents.
The poem conveys his deep reverence for nature.
From being tagged a failure, a boy who could not even produce a straight line on paper or understand decimals, I trusted in words, and I wrote my first poems.
The reason was that, at that historic period, the mainstream of Chinese new poem creation, the predominant developing tendency, having ultimately freed from the traces left by Misty poets.
He has continued trying to change, shifting from dreamlike visions to clear landscapes, from oneiric symbols to poems about friends. The Times Literary Supplement
For the romantic and postromantic traditions of poetics in which Benjamin and Adorno participate, modern lyric ambition stands as a, or even the, high-risk enterprise, the "go-for-broke-game" [ "va-banque-Spiel"], of literary art: The lyric poem must work coherently in and with the mediumlanguagethat human beings use to articulate objective concepts, even while the lyric explores the most subjective, nonconceptual, and ephemeral phenomena. Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics
used to talk about what tune or words a song or poem has or what happens in a story How does that song go?
Herondas too, the author of mimes written in choliambs (‘limping iambics’), a metre typical of the archaic iambist Hipponax, dedicates an apologetic-programmatic poem, Mimiambus 8, to the defence of his poetics.
The transgressive character of the prose poem emerges here as a natural expression of the Language poets' anti-establishment impulse.
John Milton, the high-minded creator of "Paradise Lost," along with some of the most celebrated sonnets, elegies and other written works in the English Language, may have also written the decidedly low-minded poem "An Extempore Upon a Faggot. John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem
Milton's admirable economy in working this truth into his great poem (i. 378) affords a sublime exposition of the mind of the Fathers on the origin of mythologies.] [1774] The word daimon means in Greek a god, but the Christians used the word to signify an evil spirit. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
The poem contrasts youth and age.
Iranians bring flowers, then stand or kneel beside the sarcophagous and recite his poems. The Road to Esfahan
The poem is written in northern dialect.
Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Matthea’s husband (and editor of Jubilat) Rob Caspar is also with us, as well as 4 young German poets (between 27 and 36) who have translated our poems. 2007 June : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation - Part 2
These last two poems met to mingle in the emotions that poetized these masterpieces.
You are required to learn this poem off by the end of the week.
The poem has been set to music.
Lissie looked down at the poem she'd been scratching down.
The poems are the three panegyrics with their appendixes; two epithalamia; an acknowledgment to Faustus of Reji (now Riez), a eulogy of Narbonne, or rather, of two citizens of Narbonne; a description of the castle (burgas) of Leontius, etc. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
Sketches, skits, parodies, songs, poems and bad dancing describe this sparkling, lighthearted romp through the Bard's amazing repertory of works.
At once claustral and emancipating, these poems announce that the event of life is meaningless without the form we give to it.
Standing before those who had come to read out their poems, she recollected images about poetry reading sessions.
It should be clear by now that the ambiguity of form and complexity of content in Seven Pillars are both foreshadowed in its dedicatory poem.
His collection of poems is now reissued in its third edition.
It is mere surmise that Bosch had Brant's poem in mind when doing this painting.
In 1775, there appeared a heroicomic poem, "Myszeis" (The Mousiad), a purposely entangled allegory on the state of Poland. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
Yet I know that many poets see a double-space as a framing device for how the work looks on the page, with no significance intended for how the poem sounds when read aloud or when vocalized internally. Sheryda Warrener reads Karen Solie
His movements were slow, his gaze abstracted, as if he were composing a poem in his head.
He could do one poem with sixty verses without pause, and Sir Emmanuel would listen and marvel at his ability.
Milton himself, in the Argumentum that begins the poem, claims to have produced the greatest poem ever written, ‘things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.’
Yet this emphasis on new beginnings is also framed by the opening reference to "winter" -- the first of many references to the seasons, but also a reference that reinforces the poem's stress on endings, on the conclusions of natural cycles. My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
The poet, who acknowledged her lesbianism only late in a long, distinguished career, perhaps had her sexual identity in mind in this poem.
When the first record was over, another voice introduced Bonny again and a third and fourth and fifth poem boomed out over the amplifier. COME TO MECCA
One particular quirk of syntax occurs remarkably often in both poems: duplication of a monosyllabic word with asyndeton, within a line.
Her poems have been published in a number of anthologies. Times, Sunday Times
A number of approaches to Shelley's 1819 have emphasized the distance between apparently activist poems -- The Mask of Anarchy, for exampleand what is deemed Shelley's High Style: presumably aestheticist, representationalist poetry of the "lyric I. Intervention & Commitment Forever!: Shelley in 1819, Shelley in Brecht, Shelley in Adorno, Shelley in Benjamin
He understands that the poem is foremost a form of communication, and fails if it becomes inscrutable.
For even in those most ungenial days he aspired to literary fame, and as the by-product of laborious years issued, at his own expense, the ‘Poems of a Journeyman Mason’.
The homoerotic element to the poem is more pronounced in Mitchell's translation than others, and it is also one of its authentic elements.
With a poem named "Europe," we should scarcely expect for a frontispiece the Ancient of Days, in unapproached grandeur, setting his "compass upon the face of the Earth," -- a vision revealed to the designer at the top of his own staircase. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864
After the invocational four-poem opening of 'Let's Just Say,' the book moves to 'Some of These Daze,' Bernstein's prose dispatches in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and on to the acerbic intimacies of 'World on Fire,' which critiques clichés like 'what are we fighting for?' The Chicago Blog: Press Release: Bernstein, Girly Man
My study of the Elder Futhark has been eclectic, though I approach them from the old Icelandic and Norse runic poems as interpreted by Kate MacDowell. Kelley Harrell: Harry Potter and the Elder Futhark
He began ‘treating’ the book, radically abridging the overripe text with poems ‘found’ within each page and distributed over it in blurbs something like speech bubbles.
The Poem therefore (with the exception of the first canto, which is purely introductory) is narrative, not didactic. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
I chalked a big poem on the street for my boyfriend.
When I was at school, we were required to memorize a poem every week.
One of the ways in which this foreshadowing of Agnes's death is expressed in the poem is through the swan imagery so deeply embedded in the poem's figural texture.
His poems on crocus, bittersweet, sycamore, sassafras and the like are celebrations of the natural world.
Concealed inside its villanelles, ghazals, canzones, sonnets, and prose poems are that country's unheard voices.
The poem is still at the Jackson Pollock stage - a mess of scratchy lines and blobs of ink on a yellow ground.
She has published scholarly articles as well as stories, personal essays, and poems in numerous periodicals.
The poet's anger finds expression in the last verse of the poem.
And unlike the elegies the sonnets are predominantly poems of invocation, apostrophe and direct address, he writes.
Between 1776 and 1794, Cowley produced ten comedies, two tragedies, a farce, and many poems.
Well, I guess we could kibitz a little first about the word ‘formal,’ and whether it can really be used to point to a certain sort of poem.
I chanced on a copy of the collection of Shakespeare's poems in the library.
Such poems can be new, one might say, because the vicissitudes and the strangeness of life are really inexhaustible. The Times Literary Supplement
Johnson at this period, the Latin poems which he contributed in praise of Cave, and of Cave's friends, or the Jacobite squibs by which he relieved his anti-ministerialist feelings. Samuel Johnson
Her first collection of poems interrogates the nature of physical and the metaphysical knowledge.
I sometimes think that my poems are elegies for that lost life.
Poems reach their audiences not as abstract linguistic constructs that are pretty much the same whatever their material published form, but either as performance or as printed artifacts.
set this poem to music
The poem is wonderfully funny in its sketch of our toey aggressiveness when we find ourselves overseas and out of our trees.
The poem had been embroidered on a pretty decorative pillow.
Poems of other genre are replete with allusions to incidents and personalities drawn from jataka stories.
It means the poems belong to the soldiers themselves. Times, Sunday Times
Composed at speed and in anger, the poem uses the popular ballad form with immense power and sometimes surreal effect.
My friend Phil Proctor just sent along a poem that I much enjoyed, ‘Forgetfulness,’ by Billy Collins - and I rarely enjoy unrhymed poems.
During Burns's own lifetime, books and poems were burned in Edinburgh's High street by the common hangmen.
In this poem the poet is expressing an anxiety about the modern day church.
That Stephen is said to ‘inbreathe’ this ‘tremulous morning knowledge’ becomes significant after we see the first cycle of represented inspiration, creative thought, poem text, and Stephen's reflections on the process.
In one aborted poem I explored the feeling by examining the way a tuning circuit hunts up and down its scale to locate and fix on a signal.
The fruit of the winter of 1883 and 1884, included also the too-popular "Nathalie" dances, (where, for once, Ivan over-melodized); the "Cinderella" ballet; and his symphonic poem "Dream of Italy. The Genius
His collection of poems is now reissued in its third edition.
I spent the morning working on the new book of poems, selecting, sifting and sorting pieces for inclusion.
He has passed sentence of condemnation upon Lycidas, and has taken occasion, from that charming poem, to expose and ridicule (what is indeed ridiculous enough) the childish prattlement of pastoral compositions, as if Lycidas was the prototype and pattern of them all. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II
The theme of life lessons recurs throughout these eleven poems, as the reader follows a young girl and boy through childhood.
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I know no poet who, even in quite slapdash poems, can provide more pleasant and provocative surprises.
Because as soon as you step in, you become aware of a huge sea of noise stretching away before you: whispers, murmurs, bangs, shouts, swearing, poems, confessions, exhortations.
At times Watson's poems reek of second-hand beatitude, and his preoccupation with his status of ‘writer’ reminds me of Dransfield.
But as I was crowded for space, and wished the other parts of my body to remain a blank page for a poem I was then composing — at least, what untattooed parts might remain — I did not trouble myself with the odd inches; nor, indeed, should inches at all enter into a congenial admeasurement of the whale. Moby Dick; or the Whale
By reconstructing the colonized subjects as warriors rather than as victims, the poem and the play assert the legitimacy of the nationalist struggle.
A more substantive error calls for correction because it has a bearing on the chronology of the Birthday Letters poems. The Times Literary Supplement
Words in poems or rhymes that sound the same but look different can be confusing for young children.
It opens with a series of dedicatory poems addressed to aristocratic women, representing them as a mutually supportive female community.
The first is the doggerel speech/beach rhyme - which says the poem will be foolish and has us lower our guard.
This is the hardest poem to puzzle out, but the most rewarding. Times, Sunday Times
The poem is re-created in glowing phrases — “A rich distilled perfume emanates from it like the breath of genius; a golden cloud envelops it; a honeyed paste of poetic diction encrusts it, like the candied coat of the auricula”. The Common Reader, Second Series
Once more, though, the poem reveals a play of language which render meaning unstable and even self-contradictory.
a new one, because the Poem all thro is a simple and faithful picture of English scenery and English character, and the figure of the Farmer's Boy, wherever introduced in the illustrations should be an English figure and not a piping shepherd of Arcadia. Letter 159
The stars and planets that merrily twinkle, light years away, have inspired song lyrics and poems, become pivotal symbols in religion and have provided an eternal need for man to explore the concept of infinity.
In Seoul she recited poems in fluent Korean to schoolchildren. Times, Sunday Times
My poems are also going to be published in an anthology. Times, Sunday Times
I'm having the most enormous fun sifting through the mound of accumulated poems and haiku, bringing order and accord where there was none.
She makes very general assertions about marriage in the poem.
Wordsworth enters St John's, and publishes his first poem. He later became Poet Laureate.
Her new collection of poems was not well received
The ability of that medium to distort, graft, reopen and reanimate lost time permits these poems their exquisite, darkly funny dissections.
But I digress. To get back to what I was saying, this poem reflects the poet's love of nature and his religious beliefs.
The poem is a reaction to a conversation with a friend about life, death, the hereafter.
The 6-stress line is called the alexandrine (probably from the name of an Old French poem in this metre). The Principles of English Versification
The Younger Edda is a prose paraphrase of, and commentary on, these poems and others which are lost, together with a treatise on metre, written by the historian The Edda, Volume 1 The Divine Mythology of the North, Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12
Although in other poems Leapor shows that labouring class women can be desperately unhappy in marriage, she is not unequivocal.
Various other exegetic books and lives of saints go under his name; he is also the author of at least one religious poem.
Wordsworth changed the ideas of his poem to conform with his later religious and political opinions.
We may, I believe, safely compare the history of The Nights with the so-called Homeric poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, a collection of immortal ballads and old Epic formulæ and verses traditionally handed down from rhapsode to rhapsode, incorporated in a slowly-increasing body of poetry and finally welded together about the age of Pericles. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
As he read the poem out loud, he mangled the rhythm so badly that it scarcely made any sense.
Penberthy's initial decision to put the poems in chronological sequence of composition established a solid reference point, a relatively easy plan to conceive and a very hard one to carry out.
Gilmore's standing, in short, could be helped by a fresh selection of her poems.
Still, some of the greatest emcees I know are some of my favorite poets i.e., Nas, Kweli, Method, Lauryn, Common, Mos, Jay Z etc., and I can't wait to publish their poems in book form.
A friend of his asked him to set her poem to music, and he has done so really well!
Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
People are homeless and hungry, the landscape often ungenerous, but in many of these poems, kindness is the miracle. Carol Muske-Dukes: Scattershot Poetry Reviews -- Three Books
40 Poems, ballads, and images suggested an American picaro, a raffish trickster and canny businessman, whose slick tongue and sharp wit made him impossible to trust fully.
The word physiologic implies something healthy and normal, but Sappho's poems are not healthy and normal; they are abnormal, they are pathologic. Primitive Love and Love-Stories
To capture the truth of the object then, the poem argues, the object must be absent.
I get testy when people put whole books or short stories or poems up on their website, without permission, especially when they know it's wrong.
Executed on large sheets of sheepskin parchment, each extraordinarily delicate ink line drawing illustrates one canto or section of Dante's poem.
They have essays and poems in this companion volume of poems, essays and meditations.
Browning laid the scene of his poem in Germany, save perhaps the use of such words as "thorp" and "croft," but there is a clean, pure morning light playing through the verse, a fresh, health-breathing northern air, which does not fit in with Italy; a joyous, buoyant youthfulness in the song and march of the students who carry their master with gay strength up the mountain to the very top, all of them filled with his aspiring spirit, all of them looking forward with gladness and vigour to life -- which has no relation whatever to the temper of Florentine or The Poetry Of Robert Browning
The card itself was beautiful and came with an elfin poem inside, the painting of Galadriel is by Josephine Wall.
I asked some moments ago what connection you see between the conciseness of your poems and their preoccupation with pain.
Following poems develop a manner of writing which relies heavily on language as a palimpsest of attitudes and learned response so as to undermine these.
Thus it is that one often comes across a line of startling beauty and brilliance in an otherwise putrescent poem or page of prose.
In the world of pet bereavement, this is often referred to as "Rainbow Bridge", based on a prose poem written by an anonymous author in the 1980s.
“What being in FAT means to me, a poem by borna sammak & bun-b of UGK,” says the caption to pic number two. Fffff FAT! (And liking it ;p)
My own private story likewise, my love adventures, my rambles; the frowns and smiles of fortune on my bardship my poems and fragments, that must never see the light, shall be occasionally inserted. Robert Burns
I read this poem often, once a month at least. Times, Sunday Times
The poem is too long to quote in its entirety.

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