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noun

a composition in verse, especially one that is characterized by a highly developed artistic form and by the use of heightened language and rhythm to express an intensely imaginative interpretation of the subject.

composition that, though not in verse, is characterized by great beauty of language or expression: a prose poem from the Scriptures; a symphonic poem.

something having qualities that are suggestive of or likened to those of poetry: Marcel, that chicken cacciatore was an absolute poem.

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Origin:
1540–50; < Latin poēma < Greek poíēma poem, something made, equivalent to poiē-, variant stem of poieîn to make + -ma suffix denoting result

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In a half-filled auditorium, a poet was reading a poem about the death of a child.

It is so interesting to see how everyone interprets the economy through poem.

Traditionally an oral work, the only manuscript of the poem was tragically burned during the nation's civil war.

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In a half-filled auditorium, a poet was reading a poem about the death of a child.

It is so interesting to see how everyone interprets the economy through poem.

Traditionally an oral work, the only manuscript of the poem was tragically burned during the nation's civil war.

Key to write a poem that would become the lyrics to the national anthem.

He has written a little poem about reading to his daughter.

He is continually moving away from the poem at hand to another and another after that.

He speaks of what a poem does for its author, restoring something to the self.

The poem was probably composed in the seventh or eighth century and spread primarily through song or spoken verse.

Coleridge can seem as crazy as a hoot owl, and the poem is anything but scientific.

O'Reilly closed with a dramatic reading of a poem he apparently read to his father before he died.

In each round, each of two contenders has up to five minutes to read a poem.

Each poem has to have a reason for being in the book, and for being in that particular place within it.

T5 prompts children to write an original story or poem about the stunning night lights.

Unfortunately, the link doesn't go into the content of the poem much.

She described how electrifying it was to hear that poem read aloud.

People have been arguing about this gorgeous little tone poem since it was released two weeks ago.

And when the poem was decoded it stated the location of the final egg to be found.

But then in another poem the monsterologist explains that ogres don't eat humans because they're too high in cholesterol.

Brown, largely because she wrote a poem which appealed to his softer emotions.

Other translators render the opening lines differently, but the poem always begins with an.

So in that instance the poem becomes a vehicle for a conceptual idea that's a little above the poem itself.

The visualization shows the movement of the poem over time in an approximate consonant space.

It's a house that reads almost as easily as a good poem.

Aytes's work embodies the university's values almost as perfectly as a poem might capture happiness or disappointment.

He often published different versions of the same poem in different places.

The words of the poem should form the shape of the plant or animal.

He wrote a poem in computer code, and he wrote a computer program that helped him catalog all the things he had written.

If you asked for a poem that featured fountain pens he would find not one, but six.

Sometimes the rhyming poem clues will try to trick you with puns in the later levels, so think creatively.

It requires having a poem none of them are likely to have seen.

Each poem is the voice of a particular worker, explaining.

For one project, girls write a haiku and then create a video to illustrate the poem.

For example, the date of the poem is right on the page, and you didn't take the time to note that.

Britain's favourite war poem eulogises a cavalry brigade that charged in the wrong direction.

One side highlights an inspiring poem about reading.

Every painting, poem and rustic folk song is indicative of the ineffable zeitgeist of the cultural disposition.

Unless you can see that point of view, you can't understand why someone would go on a crusade or write a poem about their faith".

Have students write a poem about one of the butterflies shown in the story.

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poem (ˈpəʊɪm)

—n
1.	a composition in verse, usually characterized by concentrated and heightened language in which words are chosen for their sound and suggestive power as well as for their sense, and using such techniques as metre, rhyme, and alliteration
2.	a literary composition that is not in verse but exhibits the intensity of imagination and language common to it: a prose poem
3.	anything resembling a poem in beauty, effect, etc

[C16: from Latin poēma, from Greek, variant of poiēma something composed, created, from poiein to make]

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poem

1548 (replacing poesy, q.v.), from M.Fr. poème (14c.), from L. poema "verse, poetry," from Gk. poema "thing made or created, fiction, poetical work," from poein "to make or compose" (see poet).

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"For a symbol is like a rock dropped into a pool: it sends out ripples in all directions, and the ripples are in motion. Who can say where the last ripple disappears? One may have a sense that he at least knows approximately the center point of all those ripples, the point at which the stone struck the water. Yet even then he has trouble marking it precisely. How does one make a mark on water? ... The ripples continue to move and the light to change on the water and the longer one watches the more changes he sees. And such shifting-and-being-at-the-same-instant is of the very sparkle and life of poetry. Of poetry and of life itself. For the poem is a dynamic and living thing. One experiences it as one experiences life—as everybody but Mr. Gradgrind experiences life. One is never done with it: every time he looks he sees something new, and it changes even as he watches. And that very sense of continuity in fluidity is one of the kinds of knowledge, one of the ways of knowing, that only the arts can teach, poetry foremost among them."

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