Types of Poems
1. Lyric: subjective, reflective poetry with regular rhyme scheme and meter which reveals the poet's thoughts and feelings to create a single, unique impression.
Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"
William Blake, "The Lamb," "The Tiger"
Emily Dickinson, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"
Langston Hughes, "Dream Deferred"
Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
Walt Whitman, "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"
2. Narrative: nondramatic, objective verse with regular rhyme scheme and meter which relates a story or
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fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
(Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Pied Beauty")
15. Allusion: a reference to an outside fact, event, or other source.
World-famous golden-thighed Pythagoras
Fingered upon a fiddle-stick or strings
What a star sang and careless Muses heard
(Pythagoras--Greek mathematician; Muses--mythological goddesses of beauty and music)
(William Butler Yeats, "Among School Children")
In Breughel's great painting, The Kermess,
the dancers go round, they go round and around
(William Carlos Williams, "The Dance")
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