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  2. Poetic devices - Wikipedia

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    Poetic Diction is a style of writing in poetry which encompasses vocabulary, phrasing, and grammatical usage. Along with syntax, poetic diction functions in the setting the tone, mood, and atmosphere of a poem to convey the poet's intention. Poetic devices shape a poem and its meanings.

  3. In the Bazaars of Hyderabad - Wikipedia

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    "In The Bazaars of Hyderabad" is a poem by Indian Romanticism and Lyric poet Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949). The work was composed and published in her anthology The Bird of Time (1912)—which included "Bangle-sellers" and "The Bird of Time", it is Naidu's second publication and most strongly nationalist book of poems, published from both London and New York City.

  4. Poetry analysis - Wikipedia

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    The poem does not have a deep, hidden, symbolic meaning. Rather, it is simply pleasurable to read, say, and hear. Critical terminology becomes useful when one attempts to account for why the language is pleasurable, and how Byron achieved this effect. The lines are not simply rhythmic: the rhythm is regular within a line, and is the same for ...

  5. The Frog and the Nightingale - Wikipedia

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    The poem is a fable and like most fables it has a moral.Various themes are intertwined. The poem can be seen as exposing the role of critics towards any fresh talent; it can be read as exploitation of a simple, genuine talent by a personal gain or as a poem about a jealous person who does not let real talent flourish by discouraging and finally eliminating it.

  6. Lyric poetry - Wikipedia

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    A poem's particular structure, function, or theme might all vary. [10] The lyric poetry of Europe in this period was created by the pioneers of courtly poetry and courtly love largely without reference to the classical past. [11]

  7. John Berryman - Wikipedia

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    John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar.He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the "confessional" school of poetry.

  8. To Autumn - Wikipedia

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    A.C. Swinburne placed it with "Ode on a Grecian Urn" as "the nearest to absolute perfection" of Keats's odes; Aileen Ward declared it "Keats's most perfect and untroubled poem"; and Douglas Bush has stated that the poem is "flawless in structure, texture, tone, and rhythm"; [53] Walter Evert, in 1965, stated that "To Autumn" is "the only ...

  9. Mathematical beauty - Wikipedia

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    This elegant expression ties together arguably the five most important mathematical constants (e, i, , 1, and 0) with the two most common mathematical symbols (+, =). Euler's identity is a special case of Euler's formula , which the physicist Richard Feynman called "our jewel" and "the most remarkable formula in mathematics". [ 7 ]