Poems 1: Name the Poem
Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, / Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, / Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water
"Miracles"
Blackout poems
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
Narrative
Called the "father of free verse"
Walt Whitman
Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."
Edgar Allan Poe
the whole pageantry // of the year was / awake tingling / near / the edge of the sea
"Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
Title of the painting of the man sitting on a chair with his head in his hands
Worn Out
But I with mournful tread, / Walk the deck my Captain lies, / Fallen cold and dead.
Extended metaphor
Credited with inventing the detective fiction genre
Edgar Allan Poe
The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep
Robert Frost
A free bird leaps / on the back of the wind / and floats downstream / till the current ends
"Caged Bird"
Poems inspired by other works of art
Ekphrasis or ekphrastic poems
...watch honey-bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon / Or animals feeding in the fields, / Or birds, or the wonderfulness of insects in the air...
Imagery
Served as poet laureate of the United States
Billy Collins
I want them to waterski / across the surface of a poem
Oh, I kept the first for another day! / Yet knowing how way leads on to way, / I doubted if I should ever come back
"The Road Not Taken"
Painted Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Repetition
Was the inspiration for a famous musician's stage name
Dylan Thomas
"Hope" is the thing with feathers - / that perches on the soul
Emily Dickinson
And then my heart with pleasure fills, / And dances with the daffodils
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
Robert Frost read a poem at this president's inauguration
John F. Kennedy
...a poor / dry stick given / one more chance by the whims / of swamp water - a bough / that still, after all these years, / could take root
Imagery
His tombstone reads "I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
Robert Frost
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair
Langston Hughes