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The following is a list of the top 100 most famous poems of all time in the English language. There's always room for debate when creating a "top 100" list, and let's face it, fame is a pretty fickle thing. It changes over time. But that said, we did our best to use available objective data in putting together this ranked list of the 100 most ...
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Too high for most of us with “the rockets. red glare” and then there are the bombs. (Always, always, there is war and bombs.) Once,... Read More. A note from the editor: Today is Independence Day in the United States. Read more July 4th poems in our collection.
poetry, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. (Read Britannica’s biography of this author, Howard Nemerov.)
Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic 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.
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Language as Form. In our series Language as Form, we’ve invited poets to write about poetic language as patterned language—how words as sound, voice, sentence, and song become elements of form. This week's issue: Alina Stefanescu on Uljana Wolf’s “my cadastre”. Read This Week's Issue.
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