A Crash Course in Poetic History
Poems represent some of the greatest works of literature assembled. Peruse these noteworthy poems to see some of the early creations and how poetry evolved:
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The Odyssey by Homer
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Rubaiyat XII by Omar Khayyam
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“Farewell” by Chao Li-hua
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Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare
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The Inferno by Dante
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Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
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“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” by Walt Whitman
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“A Narrow Fellow in the Grass” by Emily Dickinson
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“The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats
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“Walking Around” by Pablo Neruda
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“Requiem: 1935–1940” by Anna Akhmatova
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“Song of the Initiate” by Léopold Sédar Senghor
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“Daddy” by Sylvia Plath
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“Under a Certain Little Star” by Wislawa Szymborska
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“Monster Mash” by David Trinidad