Definition of Poem

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Definition of Poem

Poem

A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.

A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.

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Poem Quotations

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Steven Wright

My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.
Groucho Marx

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
Henry David Thoreau

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
Bob Dylan

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
Robert Frost

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Walt Whitman

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
Walt Whitman

Poem Translations

poem in Afrikaans is gedig
poem in Dutch is gedicht, dichtwerk, vers
poem in German is Gedicht
poem in Hungarian is vers
poem in Italian is poesia
poem in Latin is poema poematis, carmen
poem in Portuguese is poema
poem in Spanish is poema
poem in Swedish is dikt

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