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Poems founded on the Affections (1815–20); Poems of the Imagination (1827–) 1800 Written in Germany, on one of the coldest days of the Century 1799 On one of the Coldest Days of the Century. Former title: Preceding Publication was titled: "The Fly" "A plague on your languages, German and Norse!" Poems of Sentiment and Reflection: 1800
Avvaiyar ( Tamil: ஔவையார்) was a Tamil poet who lived during the period of Kambar and Ottakoothar during the reign of the Chola dynasty in the twelfth century. [1] She is often imagined as an old and intelligent lady by Tamil people. Many poems and the Avvai Kural, comprising 310 kurals in 31 chapters, belong to this period.
The inaugural National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman, performing at the Library of Congress. The National Youth Poet Laureate is a title held in the United States by a young person who demonstrates skill in the arts, particularly poetry and/or spoken word, is a strong leader, is committed to social justice, and is active in civic discourse and advocacy.
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that ...
Ten-code. Ten-codes, officially known as ten signals, are brevity codes used to represent common phrases in voice communication, particularly by US public safety officials and in citizens band (CB) radio transmissions. The police version of ten-codes is officially known as the APCO Project 14 Aural Brevity Code. [1]
Feud. Literature portal. v. 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.
Clerihew. A clerihew ( / ˈklɛrɪhjuː /) is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem of a type invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. The first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person, and the remainder puts the subject in an absurd light or reveals something unknown or spurious about the subject.
Dub poetry. Dub poetry is a form of performance poetry of Jamaican origin, [1] which evolved out of dub music in Kingston, Jamaica, in the 1970s, [2] [3] as well as in London, England, and Toronto, Canada, cities which have large populations of Caribbean immigrants. [4] The term "Dub Poetry" was coined by Dub artist Linton Kwesi Johnson in 1976 ...