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poem

noun as in highly expressive, rhythmical literary piece

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After reading the poem “The Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall, Curtis was inspired and changed the setting of the story.

It found about 1 in 4 high school seniors never read stories or novels and about half never read poems on their own.

It can spew poems, short stories, and songs with little prompting, and has been demonstrated to fool people into thinking its outputs were written by a human.

The classic Mulan is unthreatening because she returns home to her old life as a good daughter at the end of the poem, but 1998 Mulan is so revolutionary that she single-handedly changes the entire empire’s opinion of women.

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While a student, Coel wrote Chewing Gum Dreams, a one-woman play whose title she borrowed from one of her own poems.

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Distraught, she wrote her poem on the subway on the way to the event.

Uneeb Khan asked in his poem about his quest for answers following the death of his non-Muslim friend.

Each word, from aa to za, gets its own two-page spread with a poem and a pic.

How much of your family was able to see you read your poem at the inauguration?

You include a story about a poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, really affecting you in your formative years.

In his condemned cell he composed a beautiful poem of 14 verses (“My last Thought”), which was found by his wife and published.

Sebastian Brandt died; counsellor of Strassburg, a lawyer, and author of a curious poem.

And in his heart the name of the poem repeated itself with significant insistence: Unwelcome!

They were still talking of the poem and the music, exchanging intimate thoughts in the language he could not understand.

He was for many years judge of a court in Connecticut, and is known as the author of the popular poem, McFingal.

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to poem, such as: ballad, composition, epic, lyric, poetry, and rhyme.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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