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This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight. This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label of long poem is selectively and inconsistently applied in ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... Palestine is an 1803 romantic long poem by noted clergyman ... "None who heard Reginald Heber recite his ‘ Palestine’ in ...
The poem describes the march of twelve Red Guards (likened to the Twelve Apostles) through the streets of revolutionary Petrograd, with a fierce winter blizzard raging around them. The mood of the Twelve as conveyed by the poem oscillates from base and even sadistic aggression towards everything perceived bourgeois and counter-revolutionary, to ...
The long poem thrived and gained new vitality in the hands of experimental Modernists in the early 1900s and has continued to evolve through the 21st century. The long poem has evolved into an umbrella term, encompassing many subgenres, including epic, verse novel, verse narrative, lyric sequence, lyric series, and collage/montage.
"Al Aaraaf" is the longest poem Poe wrote [1] and was inspired by Tycho Brahe's identification of a supernova in 1572 which was visible for about seventeen months. [2] Poe identified the supernova with Al Aaraaf, a star that was the place between paradise and hell.
Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 By a Retired Mariner, H. H. (A Friend of the Author) 1833 "From early youth I ploughed the restless Main," Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 At Bala-Sala, Isle of Man ((supposed to be written by a friend) 1833
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
The poem is arranged in a series of 25 alexandrine quatrains with an a/b/a/b rhyme-scheme. It is woven around the delirious visions of the eponymous boat, swamped and lost at sea. It was considered revolutionary in its use of imagery and symbolism. One of the longest and perhaps best poems in Rimbaud's œuvre, it opens with the following quatrain: