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Proclaiming ironically how easy it is to master the art of losing, Bishop's speaker asserts that it just takes practice and then catalogues all the things she has lost.

The theme of Countée Cullen's "The Wise" ironically dramatizes the notion that in death one becomes immune to the trammels of earthly duality.

Poem number 827 in Johnson's The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson offers a glimpse of the poet's satisfying daily existence.

Pastan's poem dramatizes the excitement and enthusiasm of discovering the work of a poet, with whom the speaker had formerly remained unacquainted.

Gore joked to his publisher that W. B. Yeats had penned the poem in Gore's latest book; sadly, the publisher seemed to fall for it, before Gore admitted to scribbling it.

Amichai's versanelle expands its focus through a divine realization, one begun in utterly humble circumstances.

The first clue that Stevens' subject is not the fat, round object that children build out in the yard on a snowy day is in the title: it is "snow man," not "snowman."

The speaker requests that her belovèd love her only for the sake of love and not for any qualities that she possesses, such as a smile or the way she speaks.

The speaker in Sonnet 15 concentrates on her ambiguous facial expressions that have yet to catch up with her overflowing heart

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's speaker revisits her former sorrow to contrast her earlier "heavy heart" with the light heartedness she now enjoys because of her belovèd.

Continuing her lamentations over the gap in societal station between her suitor and herself, the speaker wonders if she has anything to offer the suitor.

Frost's versanelle consists of two sestets, each with the rime scheme, ABABCC. The poem dramatizes the phases of the moon and makes a statement about human freedom.

On January 20, 2009, at the history-making inauguration of Barack Obama, Yale English professor, Elizabeth Alexander, delivered her work, "Praise Song for the Day.

The speaker in Robert Frost's American sonnet reveals his rebellious nature, proclaiming his individual prerogative to venture into the city at night.

Poetry comes in many forms, from free verse to the extremely restrictive haiku and the complex sestina. Here are ten of the most common types of poems.

The speaker is still walking the path to self-acceptance, still looking for the courage to believe in her own good fortune at finding a love that she wants to deserve.

The speaker gives a lock of her hair to her belovèd as she dramatizes and philosophizes about the significance of the gift.

The speaker is growing accustomed to hearing her lover say, "I love you,"-so much so that she is now commanding him to repeat it again and again.

Brooks' "Gay Chaps at the Bar" is an American sonnet, featuring the Petrarchan style octave consisting of two quatrains and sestet consisting of two tercets.

Heavy with sexually charged innuendo, Neruda's sonnet dramatizes the process of lust transforming into genuine love.

"Astrophil" comes from the Greek for "star" and "love"; therefore, the lover in this sonnet sequence is a "starlover"; "Stella," his love object, is Latin for "star."

The two lovers exchange locks of hair, and the speaker makes a ceremony of the exchange as she again emphasizes the royalty of her lover's station and talent.

The speaker in Barrett Browning's second sonnet from Sonnets from the Portuguese avers that her relationship with her life mate is God-granted and therefore inviolable.

The speaker in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet 1, which begins Sonnets from the Portuguese, dramatizes the futility of melancholy that musing on death can engender.

The speaker of sonnet 10 is beginning to reason that despite her flaws, the transformative power of love can change her negative, dismissive attitude.

The speaker in sonnet 12 is growing comfortably into her realization that she is loved, but she gives to her suitor all the credit for her ability to love so deeply.

The speaker in Sonnet 13 toys with the notion of writing about her new-found feeling of love, but she demurs lest she touch that store of grief that still plagues her.

The speaker finally capitulates to the all consuming love that she has tried to deny herself, allowing herself only a speck of doubt.

In sonnet 17, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's always melancholy speaker muses on the poetics of her relationship with her poet/lover.

Sonnet 20 from Sonnets from the Portuguese finds the speaker in a pensive mood, dramatizing her awe at the difference a year has made in her life.

Sonnet 22 finds the speaker growing ever more fanciful as she paints a haven for the loving couple whose union is strengthened by soul force.

The speaker responds to love letter from her belovèd.

The speaker compares the negative attitudes of others to a "clasping knife" that she will simply close up to rid her love of danger and damage.

The speaker in Sonnet 3 muses on how unlikely it seems that a plain singer such as herself would begin a relationship with a person who attracted royalty.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 4" continues the deliberation that results in her dramatic musings on the contrasts between herself and her illustrious suitor.

Barrett Browning's Sonnet 5 from Sonnets from the Portuguese focuses on the speaker's lack of confidence that her budding relationship will continue to grow.

Sonnet 6 is a clever seduction sonnet; as the speaker seems to be giving the suitor every reason to leave her, she is also giving him very good reasons to remain.

Sonnet 7 offers a tribute to the speaker's lover, who has wrought deep and lasting important changes in the speaker's life.

The speaker continues to deny her good fortune as she reveals her gratitude for the attention of her illustrious suitor; she begins to accept her lot but reluctantly.

Poetry is a highly musical art. Using forms that emphasize the oral and aural history of the genre can increase the power of poems.

The speaker in Galway Kinnell's "Blackberry Eating" compares the experience of eating blackberries to that of pronouncing his favorite words.

Physician/Poet William Carlos Williams delightfully dramatizes the transforming power of poetry in his innovative Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet.

Wordsworth stated that this poem was "was in fact suggested by my daughter Catharine long after her death." The poem's mystic musing reveals the speaker's soul craving.

Barrett Browning's speaker dramatizes the difference between her early fantasy world and the world of reality as now represented by her belovèd.

The speaker in Barrett Browning's Sonnet 27 alludes to the Greek mythological Asphodel Meadows to dramatize her life's transformation after meeting her belovèd.

The villanelle is an enjoyable and beautiful form to write if you like repetitions of lines and an elegiac tone.

Every field of study has its scholars, critics, and commentarians, who employ terminological tools appropriate to their unique purposes. So it is with poetry commentary.