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  2. The Road - Wikipedia

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    The book received a 91% from The Lit Review based on twenty-seven critic reviews with the consensus of the reviews being, "McCarthy's bleak vision of the apocalypse is perhaps also the most affecting, touching poetic yet written". [18]

  3. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Poetic rhythm is the flow of words within each meter and stanza to produce a rhythmic effect while emphasising specific parts of the poem. Repetition– Repetition often uses word associations to express ideas and emotions indirectly, emphasizing a point, confirming an idea, or describing a notion.

  4. Hölderlin's Hymn "The Ister" - Wikipedia

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    Heidegger cites the poem "Andenken": "Yet what remains, the poets found." Heidegger relates the sign's showing to pain, to that knowing proper to being distinct. [ 44 ] The sign, the demigod, the river, the poet: all these name poetically the singular ground of the becoming homely of human beings as historical, and the founding of this ground ...

  5. The Raven - Wikipedia

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    Poe recited a poem believed to be an early version with an alternate ending of "The Raven" in 1843 in Saratoga, New York. [3] An early draft may have featured an owl. [48] In the summer of 1844, when the poem was likely written, Poe, his wife, and mother-in-law were boarding at the farmhouse of Patrick Brennan in New York.

  6. The Road Not Taken - Wikipedia

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    "The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem by Robert Frost, first published in the August 1915 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, [1] and later published as the first poem in the 1916 poetry collection, Mountain Interval. Its central theme is the divergence of paths, both literally and figuratively, although its interpretation is noted for being ...

  7. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Wikipedia

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    In his early drafts, Eliot gave the poem the subtitle "Prufrock among the Women." [11]: 41 This subtitle was apparently discarded before publication. Eliot called the poem a "love song" in reference to Rudyard Kipling's poem "The Love Song of Har Dyal", first published in Kipling's collection Plain Tales from the Hills (1888). [17]

  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. Ode on a Grecian Urn - Wikipedia

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    Tracing of an engraving of the Sosibios vase by Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819, first published anonymously in Annals of the Fine Arts for 1819 [1] (see 1820 in poetry).