You need to expose yourself to all kinds of poets and you may find your motivation and muse that way. Writing the poem (and finding just the right word) is the measure of success that the authors use. Writers say poetry provides them with comfort, a way to express themselves and the discipline of finding the essence with few words. Whatever the question is, poetry may be the answer. Here is a list of English Poems written by various authors. While quite a few poems in this selection are in traditional forms, the unit also includes modern poems that are free from formal restrictions. Poetry has a musical quality with rhythm, pitch, metre and it may use figures of speech such as simile and metaphor. No single definition of poetry is possible but some characteristic features of poetry may be mentioned. A poet is thus a maker and the poem something that is made or created. The word POETRY originates from a Greek word meaning TO MAKE. Some crickets have four legs, and some have two. Thus ending, he hastily lifted the wicket,Īnd out of the door turned the poor little cricket.įolks call this a fable. Go then,' says the ant, “and dance the winter away.' If not, he must die of starvation and sorrow. To see if, to keep him alive, he would grant

“Oh! what will become,' says the cricket, “of me?'Īt last by starvation and famine made bold,Īll dripping with wet, and all trembling with cold, His cupboard was empty, and winter was come.

Through the warm, sunny months of gay summer and spring,īegan to complain when he found that, at home, Surely, you have seen a cricket that has two legs!Ī silly young cricket, accustomed to sing This poem about an ant and a cricket contains an idea of far-reaching significance, which is as true of a four-legged cricket as of a two-legged one. A fable is a story often with animals as characters that conveys a moral.

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