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  2. Dulce et Decorum est - Wikipedia

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    Owen wrote a number of his most famous poems at Craiglockhart, including several drafts of "Dulce et Decorum Est", "Soldier's Dream", and "Anthem for Doomed Youth". Sassoon advised and encouraged Owen, and this is evident in a number of drafts which include Sassoon’s annotations. [10] Only five of Owen's poems were published in his lifetime.

  3. Clerihew - Wikipedia

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    A clerihew (/ ˈ k l ɛr ɪ h j uː /) is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem of a type invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.The first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person, and the remainder puts the subject in an absurd light or reveals something unknown or spurious about the subject.

  4. Flyting - Wikipedia

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    Flyting can also be found in Arabic poetry in a popular form called naqā’iḍ, as well as the competitive verses of Japanese Haikai. Echoes of the genre continue into modern poetry. Hugh MacDiarmid's poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, for example, has many passages of flyting in which the poet's opponent is, in effect, the rest of humanity.

  5. Jazz Chants - Wikipedia

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    Jazz Chants are defined poems with repeated beats. The beat may vary depending on the idea of the reader. [ citation needed ] A jazz chant is a fragment of authentic language presented with special attention to its natural rhythm.

  6. Jabberwocky - Wikipedia

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    For example, following the poem, a "rath" is described by Humpty Dumpty as "a sort of green pig". [18] Carroll's notes for the original in Mischmasch suggest a "rath" is "a species of Badger" that "lived chiefly on cheese" and had smooth white hair, long hind legs, and short horns like a stag. [ 19 ]

  7. Meditative poetry - Wikipedia

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    Meditative poetry has often been correlated to Relaxation Through Poetry, which is simply using poetry to relax or relieve stress whenever someone is in need. It can also be seen in group visualization sessions where a speaker tries to get the audience to forget all about their stress by the use of calm and relaxing poetry. Bibliography

  8. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [1] [2] [3] qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet.

  9. Horace - Wikipedia

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    Iambic poetry features insulting and obscene language; [32] [33] sometimes, it is referred to as blame poetry. [34] Blame poetry, or shame poetry, is poetry written to blame and shame fellow citizens into a sense of their social obligations. Each poem normally has a archetype person Horace decides to shame, or teach a lesson to.