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The next earliest example is by an anonymous author, probably of the 1st century BCE, lamenting the death of Bion; this poem has sometimes been attributed to the Hellenistic poet Moschus. [8] Virgil's "Eclogue 5," written in the 1st century BCE, is the most imitated ancient model of the pastoral elegy.
"The Highwayman" is reputed to be "the best ballad poem in existence for oral delivery". [3] It makes use of vivid imagery to describe surroundings ("the road was a gipsy's ribbon, looping the purple moor - ") and repetitious phrases to emphasise action ("A red-coat troop came marching - marching - marching -").
In 2007, the "first definitive collection" of American collaborative poetry was published under the title Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry. [5] Edited by Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton and David Trinidad, the anthology included 140 poems by more than 200 authors, culled from various magazines, out-of-print ...
[3] A reader analyzing a poem is akin to a mechanic taking apart a machine in order to figure out how it works. There are many different reasons to analyze poetry. A teacher might analyze a poem in order to gain a more conscious understanding of how the poem achieves its effects, in order to communicate this to their students.
[3] [4] In it, Wordsworth aimed to use everyday language in his compositions [5] as set out in the preface to the 1802 edition: "The principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by ...
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Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 Iona. (Upon Landing) 1833 "How sad a welcome! To each voyage" Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 The Black Stones of Iona 1833 "Here on their knees men swore; the stones were black" Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833