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1	->''"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."''
2	-->-- '''Creator/AllenGinsberg''', from ''Ginsberg, A Biography''
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4	Pretty words.
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6	No, really. That's what poetry is. Sometimes it rhymes, sometimes there are more line breaks than usual. All you really need to make a poem, though, is to put it together so it sounds good, or at least sounds the way you want it to sound. It is the favored form of [[Creator/AllenGinsberg revolutionaries]] and [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI queens]], [[MediaNotes/SchoolStudyMedia professors]] and [[{{Wangst}} angsty teens]].
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8	Poetry is one of the [[OlderThanDirt oldest]] forms of {{literature}}, and many of the [[Literature/TheSongOfRoland earliest]] [[Literature/{{Beowulf}} tales]] [[Literature/TheBible from]] [[Literature/TheOdyssey civilizations]] [[Literature/{{Ramayana}} across]] [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh the world]] are in some sort of poetic form.
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10	Often overlaps with {{Theatre}} and Music. For tropes associated with poetry, see PoetryTropes. See also MediaNotes/PoetryForms.
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12	!!Examples:
13	[[index]]
14	[[foldercontrol]]
15	[[folder:Poetic Works]]
16
17	%%
18	%% Titles of individual poems and ballads go in double quotes; epic poems, series, and collections go in italics.
19	%%
20
21	* ''Literature/TheAchilleid''
22	* ''Literature/TheAeneid''
23	* ''Literature/ArchyAndMehitabel''
24	* ''Literature/AnnaSnegina''
25	* ''Literature/ArielPlath''
26	* ''Literature/TheAuthorsOrdeal''
27	* ''Literature/AutobiographyOfRed''
28	* ''Literature/TheBalladOfMulan''
29	* ''Literature/{{Batrachomyomachia}}''
30	* ''Literature/TheBattleOfMaldon''
31	* ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}''
32	* ''[[Literature/TheGhostOfPhilinnion The Bride of Corinth]]''
33	* ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales''
34	* ''Literature/{{Casabianca}}''
35	* ''Literature/CaseyAtTheBat''
36	* ''Literature/CatulliCarmen16''
37	* ''Fanfic/ACertainCrazyChristmasSpecial''
38	* ''Literature/ChildeRolandToTheDarkTowerCame''
39	* ''Literature/ChildBallads''
40	* ''Literature/CollectedPoems1921'' (Edwin Arlington Robinson)
41	* ''Literature/CollectedPoems1930'' (Creator/RobertFrost)
42	* ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfMilesStandish''
43	* ''Literature/CreationManAndTheMessiah''
44	* ''Literature/{{Darkness}}''
45	* ''Literature/{{Desiderata}}''
46	* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''
47	* ''Literature/DonJuan''
48	* ''Literature/DoNotGoGentleIntoThatGoodNight''
49	* ''Literature/DreamOfTheRood''
50	* ''Literature/EnochArden''
51	* ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh''
52	* Literature/TheEpicOfSundiata
53	* ''Literature/TheErlKing'' or ''Der Erlkönig''
54	* ''Literature/TheEveOfStAgnes''
55	* ''Literature/EveryThingOnIt''
56	* ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene''
57	* ''Literature/FallingUpSilverstein''
58	* ''Literature/FantasyFables''
59	* ''Literature/TheFigurehead''
60	* ''Literature/FloranteAtLaura''
61	* ''Literature/FlowerFairies''
62	* ''Literature/TheFoundationOfSFSuccess''
63	* ''Literature/AFurtherRange''
64	* ''Literature/TheGeorgics''
65	* ''Literature/GoblinMarket''
66	* "Literature/TheGhoul1873"
67	* "Literature/TheGhoula"
68	* "Literature/TheGhoulAndTheSeraph"
69	* ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam''
70	* ''Literature/TheHangman''
71	* ''Literature/TheHeadlessHorsemanRidesTonightMorePoemsToTroubleYourSleep''
72	* ''Literature/{{Heroides}}''
73	* ''Literature/TheHighwayman''
74	* ''Literature/HorrorStories''
75	* ''Literature/Howl1955''
76	* ''Literature/TheHuntingOfTheSnark''
77	* ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing''
78	* ''Literature/IJustMakeThemUpSee''
79	* ''Literature/{{Jabberwocky}}''
80	* ''Literature/JohnTheValiant''
81	* ''Literature/TheKalevala''
82	* ''Literature/{{Kalevipoeg}}''
83	* ''Literature/KublaKhan''
84	* ''Literature/{{Krakumal}}''
85	* ''Literature/KeepItInTheFamily''
86	* ''Literature/LadyClare''
87	* ''Literature/TheLadyOfShalott''
88	* ''Literature/LeavesOfGrass''
89	* ''Literature/{{Lenore}}''
90	* ''Literature/ALightInTheAttic''
91	* ''Literature/LiveorDie''
92	* ''[[Myth/{{Lorelei}} The Loreley]]''
93	* ''Theatre/{{Manfred}}'' (sort of a poem, sort of a play, sort of a short story)
94	* ''Literature/MaxAndMoritz''
95	* ''Literature/TheMetamorphoses''
96	* ''Literature/TheNauticalBalladOfBenBoBohns''
97	* ''Literature/NewHampshire''
98	* ''{{Literature/Nibelungenlied}}''
99	* ''Literature/NightmaresPoemsToTroubleYourSleep''
100	* ''Literature/OldPossumsBookOfPracticalCats''
101	* ''Literature/OneFishTwoFishRedFishBlueFish''
102	* ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso''
103	* ''Literature/OrlandoInnamorato''
104	* ''Literature/TheOwlAndTheNightingale''
105	* ''Literature/ParadiseLost''
106	* ''Literature/{{Parzival}}''
107	* ''Theatre/ThePeonyPavilion''
108	* ''Literature/ThePhantomShip1927''
109	* ''Literature/PippaPasses''
110	* ''Literature/PoeticEdda''
111	* ''Literature/PoetryPileup''
112	* ''Literature/PoisonedApplesPoemsForYouMyPretty''
113	* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/381651/the-puddle-pronker The Puddle Pronker]]'', from ''Fanfic/TheWeedverse''
114	* ''Literature/{{Punica}}''
115	* ''Literature/RainbowBridge''
116	* ''Literature/TheRapeOfTheLock''
117	* "Literature/TheRaven"
118	* ''Literature/RejectionSlips''
119	* ''Literature/ReynardTheFox''
120	* ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner''
121	* ''Literature/RuslanAndLudmila''
122	* ''Literature/TheSecondComing''
123	* ''Literature/TheShahnameh''
124	* ''Literature/SongsOfInnocenceAndOfExperience''
125	* ''Literature/TheSongOfRoland''
126	* ''Literature/TheSonneteer''
127	* ''Literature/SonnetsFromThePortuguese''
128	* ''Literature/TheSpiderAndTheFly''
129	* ''Literature/SpoonRiverAnthology''
130	* ''Literature/TheTalesOfEnsignStal''
131	* ''Literature/TheThebaid''
132	* ''Literature/TheTrojanCycle''
133	** ''Literature/TheIliad''
134	** ''Literature/TheOdyssey''
135	* ''Literature/TwasTheNightBeforeChristmas''
136	* ''Literature/TheTwelve'' by Alexandre Blok
137	* ''Literature/TheWildParty''
138	* ''Literature/TheWasteLand''
139	* ''Literature/WhereTheSidewalkEnds''
140	* ''Music/WhoPaysThePiper''
141	* ''Literature/WhyCantThePerfectGirlExistIn2022OrAComplaintToMyInnerLight''
142	* ''Literature/TheWitch1896''
143	* ''Literature/TheWreckOfTheHesperus''
144	* ''Literature/{{Zorgamazoo}}''
145	[[/folder]]
146
147	[[folder:Poets]]
148	* Creator/JoHarveyAllen
149	* Creator/AnnaAkhmatova
150	* Creator/MayaAngelou
151	* Creator/MatthewArnold
152	* Creator/IsaacAsimov
153	* Creator/WHAuden
154	* Creator/GraemeBase
155	* Creator/CharlesBaudelaire
156	* Creator/TheBeatGeneration
157	** Creator/RichardBrautigan
158	** Creator/AllenGinsberg
159	* Creator/WilliamBlake
160	* Creator/RobertoBolano
161	* Creator/BertoltBrecht
162	* Creator/JosephBrodsky
163	* Creator/RobertBrowning
164	* Creator/CharlesBukowski
165	* Creator/RobertBurns
166	* Creator/LordByron
167	* Creator/LewisCarroll
168	* Creator/{{Catullus}}
169	* Creator/GeoffreyChaucer
170	* Creator/GKChesterton
171	* Creator/ErnestCline
172	* Creator/JeanCocteau
173	* Music/LeonardCohen
174	* Creator/SamuelTaylorColeridge
175	* Creator/EECummings
176	* Creator/EmilyDickinson
177	* Creator/JohnDonne
178	* Creator/JoseMariaEguren
179	* Creator/TSEliot
180	* Creator/RalphWaldoEmerson
181	* Creator/EveEwing
182	* Creator/RobertFrost
183	* Creator/LilaGaela
184	* Creator/FedericoGarciaLorca
185	* Creator/TheophileGautier
186	* Creator/LouiseGluck
187	* Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe
188	* Creator/AmandaGorman
189	* Creator/ThomasHardy
190	* Creator/HermannHesse
191	* Creator/{{Homer}}
192	* Creator/GerardManleyHopkins
193	* Creator/{{Horace}}
194	* Creator/AEHousman
195	* Creator/ErnieHudsonJr
196	* Creator/LangstonHughes
197	* Creator/TedHughes
198	* Creator/VictorHugo
199	* Creator/JohnKeats
200	* Creator/RudyardKipling
201	* Creator/HeinrichVonKleist
202	* Creator/PhilipLarkin
203	* Music/TomLehrer
204	* Creator/GiacomoLeopardi
205	* Creator/HenryWadsworthLongfellow
206	* Creator/AudreLorde
207	* Creator/JamesClarenceMangan
208	* Creator/ChristopherMarlowe
209	* Creator/AndrewMarvell
210	* Creator/MatsuoBasho
211	* Creator/JohnMilton
212	* Creator/GabrielaMistral
213	* Creator/OgdenNash
214	* Creator/PabloNeruda
215	* Creator/{{Ovid}}
216	* Creator/DorothyParker
217	* Creator/PatParker
218	* Creator/BanjoPaterson
219	* Creator/CharlesPeguy
220	* Creator/SylviaPlath
221	* Creator/DavPond
222	* Creator/GlennEPond
223	* Creator/EdgarAllanPoe
224	* Creator/AlexanderPope
225	* Creator/EzraPound
226	* Creator/AlexanderPushkin
227	* Creator/RainerMariaRilke
228	* Creator/ArthurRimbaud
229	* Creator/ChristinaRossetti
230	* Creator/DanteGabrielRossetti
231	* Creator/CarlSandburg
232	* Creator/{{Sappho}}
233	* Creator/SiegfriedSassoon
234	* Music/GilScottHeron
235	** ''Music/TheRevolutionWillNotBeTelevised'' (1974)
236	* Creator/DrSeuss
237	* Creator/AnneSexton
238	* Creator/WilliamShakespeare
239	* Creator/NtozakeShange
240	* Creator/PercyByssheShelley
241	* Creator/{{Rumi}}
242	* Creator/ShelSilverstein
243	* Music/PattiSmith
244	* Creator/VladimirSolovyov
245	* Creator/SnorriSturluson
246	* Creator/AlgernonCharlesSwinburne
247	* Creator/RabindranathTagore
248	* Creator/AlfredLordTennyson
249	* Creator/DylanThomas
250	* Creator/PaulVerlaine
251	* Creator/{{Virgil}}
252	* Creator/AliceWalker
253	* Creator/MariaElenaWalsh
254	* Creator/HenrikWergeland
255	* Creator/PhyllisWheatley
256	* Creator/WaltWhitman
257	* Creator/OscarWilde
258	* Creator/WilliamCarlosWilliams
259	* Creator/WilliamWordsworth
260	* Creator/WilliamButlerYeats
261	* Creator/TakashiYanase
262	[[/folder]]
263
264	[[/index]]

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