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

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

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

Lyric poetry is the most common form of poetry; it does not tell a story as the epic and narrative forms do; the lyric poem has grown into many forms since ancient times.

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

Monica Youn's strongest asset as a poet, is her remarkable eye for detail; and as with any good poet, Ms. Youn carefully crafts the details into perfect imagery.

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

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

In a startling shift, this collection of poems reveals uncertainty. Yet, by book's end, the natural tropes at the core of Oliver's poetry have transcended the questions.

Elisavietta Ritchie's "Sorting Laundry" provides an entertaining look at a mundane household chore, while accomplishing a tribute to her love for her spouse.

"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."

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.

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.

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

Poe's "The Sleeper" takes as its subject a beautiful woman in death, the subject that Poe claimed in his essay, "The Philosophy of Composition," to be the most poetic.

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 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."