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In Sidney, too, we find a cry for simplicity housed within an elaborate construction: an exactly rhymed sonnet in iambic hexameter. Even as his Muse’s words reproach him, they respect and embrace the form’s prosodic requirements. Keep it simple, the poem says explicitly. Keep it complex, the poem says implicitly. Written in 1948, this poem was enough to make mothers blush and fathers grumble in disapproval. W.H. Auden takes his time to vividly describe a sexual encounter between two young adults on a hot summer’s day. The companion piece to the carpe diem poem might well be the aubade, a form in which the poet begs his lover to stay in bed and mourns the rising of the sun because it means that they must part. John Donne’s poem, " The Sun Rising," is one of the earliest examples: Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball; And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.” — “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell This book wouldn’t be what it is without the artwork in both pictures and letters. The art, by Blake Armstrong, is perfectly created for the madness within the covers, while the lettering by Andy C. Fellows lends to the fractured frame of mind of the author, and you can almost imagine the lines on (napkins? receipt? dollar bills?) nearly mimic this type of writing.Very few people in this world will understand why this hit me so hard, but I am of the firm and unwavering belief that anyone who sells drugs should be tried and convicted for murder most foul first degree no reprieve. ICYMI: The art of seduction requires so much more than eggplant emojis and “U up?” texts. And while that may have been a legit tactic to have sex not too long ago, if you really, really want to impress someone, it’s all about the romantic gestures. Known for his long narrative poem the Metamorphoses, Ovid is one of the best writers in all of Latin literature. His mastery of the elegiac couplet is unparalleled, and his writing greatly influenced everyone from J.M.W. Turner to Miguel de Cervantes. But who knew he was kind of a perv? Ovid's first completed book of poetry, Amores , is a poetic account of a love affair with a high-class lady named Corinna. Here is a selection from that book's In Summer’s Heat: Wordplay is perhaps best understood as one of the tools that make possible poetry’s extraordinary concision. Partnered with meter and rhyme, it works beautifully to compress a wealth of feeling into a compact stanza. One of the reasons why the genre of the extremely brief short story in prose, the short short, interests me so little is that, to my mind, poetry does this sort of thing so much better. Here’s Frost again: In this poem, Milne describes the humorous desires of a child who is entertaining himself by thinking about everything that a king is allowed to do that he is not.

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After turning six, they are happy to remain that age forever. The child speaker feels as if they are as clever and happy as they could ever be and see no reason to age any further. Here are the first few lines: I am hypnotized. Sleepwalking to the rhythm of your words, Never wishing to wake.” — “ Hypnotized” by Michael Faudet This trailblazer of the Romantic Movement is also the national poet of Scotland, and is even known as “The Bard” in his native land (take that Shakespeare!). But Burns is probably best known by students as that poet who wrote in that weird Scots dialect you can’t really understand. This poem was written by the English poet John Donne near the end of the 1500s. During this period, bawdy and dirty love poems were commonplace. The dead are mourning not their lost lives but the loss of this conviction that life is a priceless gift of radiance and beauty and consummation. They are mourning lost youth’s lost illusions, and with this realization the poem broadens until it encompasses all of us in our aging bodies, including one melancholic elderly poet. (Housman was in his sixties when this little verse was published.) On the other hand, Housman did have the compensation (not given to the rest of us) of knowing he’d composed one of the most heartbreaking tiny poems in the language.Rosеs arе rеd, violеts arе bluе, and so bеgins a timеlеss tradition of poеtic еxprеssion that has capturеd thе hеarts of romantics for gеnеrations. Thеsе simplе yеt еvocativе linеs form thе opеning of countlеss Rosеs arе Rеd Violеts arе Bluе poеms, a classic and еndеaring stylе of vеrsе that has bеcomе a cultural mainstay. By the end of the poem, it is clear that Christopher is all better and is planning the next thing he’s going to do to “amuse” his parents. This alludes to the fact that perhaps he was acting the whole time, a fact which is sure to entertain any young reader. She was wild, unpredictable, beautiful, and dangerous. Impossible to resist. A summer storm in a bikini.” ― “ Bitter Sweet Love” by Michael Faudet