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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; In other projects ... Palestine is an 1803 romantic long poem by noted ... "None who heard Reginald Heber recite his ‘ Palestine ...
In the Walt Disney animated film Alice in Wonderland (1951) the first stanza of the poem is recited by Tweedledum and Tweedledee as a song. "Father William" was played by Sammy Davis Jr. in the 1985 film. Davis Jr. also sang the poem. The 1999 film briefly shows Father William as Alice recites the first verse of the poem to the Caterpillar.
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.
The poem also influenced two composers of European origin who spent a few years in the US but did not choose to settle there. The first of these was Frederick Delius, who completed his tone poem Hiawatha in 1888 and inscribed on the title page the passage beginning "Ye who love the haunts of Nature" from near the start of the poem. [39]
"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.
How Doth the Little Crocodile" is a poem by Lewis Carroll that appears in chapter 2 of his 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice recites it while attempting to recall "Against Idleness and Mischief" by Isaac Watts. It describes a crafty crocodile that lures fish into its mouth with a welcoming smile.
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 ...