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- Literary Theory: PoetryToggle Dropdown
- Poetic FormsToggle Dropdown
- Intro. to Blank Verse This link opens in a new window
- Intro. to Ballads This link opens in a new window
- Intro. to Free Verse This link opens in a new window
- Intro. to Lyric poetry This link opens in a new window
- Intro. to Narrative Poetry This link opens in a new window
- Into. to the Sonnet This link opens in a new window
- Into. to the Villanelle This link opens in a new window
- Rap
- ANGELOU, MayaToggle Dropdown
- AUDEN, W. H.Toggle Dropdown
- BALDWIN, James
- BILSTON: Refugees
- BISHOP, ElizabethToggle Dropdown
- BLAKE, WilliamToggle Dropdown
- BRONTE, EmilyToggle Dropdown
- BROOKS: We Real Cool
- BROWNING, Elizabeth B.Toggle Dropdown
- BROWNING, RobertToggle Dropdown
- BURNS: A red, red rose
- BYRON: She walks in Beauty
- CARROLL, LewisToggle Dropdown
- COLERIDGE, Samuel T.Toggle Dropdown
- DICKINSON, EmilyToggle Dropdown
- DONNE, JohnToggle Dropdown
- DOVE: Parsley
- DUNBAR, Paul LaurenceToggle Dropdown
- DYLAN: All Along the Watchtower This link opens in a new window
- ELIOT, T. S.Toggle Dropdown
- EMERSON, Ralph WaldoToggle Dropdown
- FROST, RobertToggle Dropdown
- HAFEZ: My Brilliant Image
- HARWOOD, GwenToggle Dropdown
- HEANEY, SeamusToggle Dropdown
- HENLEY, William ErnestToggle Dropdown
- HOMERToggle Dropdown
- HOPKINS, Gerard ManleyToggle Dropdown
- HUGHES, LangstonToggle Dropdown
- HUGHES, TedToggle Dropdown
- JOHNSON: Lift every Voice and Sing This link opens in a new window
- KAUR, Rupi
- KEATS, JohnToggle Dropdown
- KENDALL: Bell Birds
- KIPLING: If
- LAWSON, HenryToggle Dropdown
- LAZURUS: New Colossus
- LEAR: Poems & Limericks This link opens in a new window
- LONGFELLOW, Henry W.Toggle Dropdown
- MACKELLAR: My Country
- MILTON, JohnToggle Dropdown
- NOONUCCAL, OodgerooToggle Dropdown
- OLIVER, MaryToggle Dropdown
- OWEN, WilfredToggle Dropdown
- PATERSON, Andrew 'Banjo'Toggle Dropdown
- PLATH, SylviaToggle Dropdown
- POE Edgar AllenToggle Dropdown
- REED: Lost Generation
- ROBERTS: The Great Realisation
- SAXE: Blind Men & Elephant
- SHAKESPEARE, WilliamToggle Dropdown
- SHELLEY, Percy ByscheToggle Dropdown
- STEVENS: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
- THOMAS, DylanToggle Dropdown
- WHITMAN, Walt
- WORDSWORTH, WilliamToggle Dropdown
- YEATS, William ButlerToggle Dropdown
- WALKER, Kath
- WRIGHT, JudithToggle Dropdown
O me! O life! by Walt Whitman (1855)
The poem explores the meaning of life through idyllic philosophy and noting the importance of the spiritual and moral.
Poem
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