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Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Epigraph: a quotation from another literary work that is placed under the title at the beginning of a poem or section of a poem. Hemistich : a half of a line of verse. Internal rhyme : a rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines.
List of Brontë poems; List of poems by Ivan Bunin; List of poems by Catullus; List of Emily Dickinson poems; List of poems by Robert Frost; List of poems by John Keats; List of poems by Philip Larkin; List of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; List of poems by Walt Whitman; List of poems by William Wordsworth; List of works by Andrew Marvell
Mu'allaqat, Arabic poems written by seven poets in Classical Arabic, these poems are very similar to epic poems and specially the poem of Antarah ibn Shaddad; Parsifal by Richard Wagner (opera, composed 1880–1882) Pasyón, Filipino religious epic, of which the 1703 and 1814 versions are popular; Popol Vuh, history of the K'iche' people
"Spirits of the Dead" was first titled "Visits of the Dead" when it was published in the 1827 collection Tamerlane and Other Poems. The title was changed for the 1829 collection Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems. The poem follows a dialogue between a dead speaker and a person visiting his grave. The spirit tells the person that those who ...
The connection between the poets was described as "little more than a negative determination to avoid bad principles." The " Modernist School ", the " Blue Star ", and the " Epoch " were modernist, including avant-garde and surrealism , Chinese poetic groups founded in 1954 in Taiwan and led by Qin Zihao (1902–1963) and Ji Xian (b. 1903).
"Two Tramps in Mud Time" "The White-Tailed Hornet" "A Blue Ribbon at Amesbury" "A Drumlin Woodchuck" "The Gold Hesperidee" "In Time of Cloudburst" "A Roadside Stand" "Departmental" "The Old Barn at the Bottom of the Fogs" "On the Heart's Beginning to Cloud the Mind" "The Figure in the Doorway" "At Woodward's Gardens" "A Record Stride" "Taken ...
" Now list to my morning's romanza, I tell the signs of the Answerer," Leaves of Grass (Book IX.) 1855 Song of the Banner at Daybreak " O A new song, a free song," Leaves of Grass (Book XXI. Drum-Taps) ; The Patriotic Poems I (Poems of War) Song of the Broad-Axe " Weapon shapely, naked, wan," Leaves of Grass (Book XII.)