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  2. Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den - Wikipedia

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    Hokkien POJ. Si-sī si̍t sai sú. " Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den " is a short narrative poem written in Literary Chinese, composed of around 92 to 94 characters (depending on the specific version) in which every word is pronounced shi ([ʂɻ̩]) when read in modern Standard Chinese, with only the tones differing. [1]

  3. Aram Saroyan - Wikipedia

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    Aram Saroyan. Aram Saroyan (born September 25, 1943) is an American poet, novelist, biographer, memoirist and playwright, who is especially known for his minimalist poetry, famous examples of which include the one-word poem "lighght" [1] and a one-letter poem comprising a four-legged version of the letter "m".

  4. Acrostic - Wikipedia

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    Acrostic. An acrostic is a poem or other word composition in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each new line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet. [1] The term comes from the French acrostiche from post-classical Latin acrostichis, from Koine Greek ἀκροστιχίς ...

  5. Poetry from Daily Life: Stumped for ideas? Start your poem ...

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    The idea is to examine the word of the month, probe for its secrets, its stories, choose one, and write about it. Your poem can be in verse (with rhyme and meter) or free verse. It can be long or ...

  6. The Road Not Taken - Wikipedia

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    The Road Not Taken. " 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 ...

  7. One Word is Too Often Profaned - Wikipedia

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    The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar. From the sphere of our sorrow? Published in Posthumous Poems, 1824. " One Word Is Too Often Profaned " is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1822 and published in 1824 (see 1822 in poetry).

  8. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    t. e. 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. Poems by Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

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    Alone (Poe) "Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe. " Alone " is a 22-line poem originally written in 1829, and left untitled and unpublished during Poe's lifetime. The original manuscript was signed "E. A. Poe" and dated March 17, 1829. [1] In February of that year, Poe's foster mother Frances Allan had died.