poem

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UK /ˈpəʊ.ɪm/ US /ˈpoʊ.əm/

noun 3

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(noun.)

ADJ

fine, good, great, magnificent, remarkable

collected, selected

The library has a new edition of Maya Angelou's selected poems.

QUANT

anthology, collection

VERB + POEM

compose, write

read

The teacher asked us to read a short poem by Robert Frost for homework.

recite | learn by heart

dedicate

The famous author dedicated her latest poem to all the teachers who inspired her.

POEM + VERB

be addressed to sb

PREP

in a/the ~

The famous lines in that poem always remind me of my grandmother's childhood.

~ about

She wrote a beautiful poem about her grandmother's life in the countryside.

Definitions

noun

A literary piece written in verse.

Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.

A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.

A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose.

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David has a keen interest in aesthetics — the qualities that make a painting, sculpture, musical composition, or poem pleasing to the eye, ear, or mind.

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Can you make sense of this poem?

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You cannot appreciate the poem until you have read it many times.

Tatoeba · #20596

The students learned this poem by heart.

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Having heard it so many times, I can recite the poem by heart now.

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