A poem about poems
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Introduction
Reading a poem is like gazing through a window,
Witnessing passion and pain, joy and sorrow.
What鈥檚 more in their panes, a faint reflection,
A familiar visage, a moment of introspection.
Epic Poems: Homer and Virgil
Poetry started with long stories of epic heroes,
Facing fierce trials and fighting fearsome foes.
Odysseus travels to uncharted distant shores,
While Aeneas battles fate amidst enemies鈥 roars.
William Shakespeare
The bard鈥檚 sweet words are like 鈥渁 summer鈥檚 day,鈥
In the fourteen lines of love, our hearts stir and sway,
Each line carefully crafted with perfect rhythm and rhyme,
These sonnets have endured through generations of time.
John Donne
The metaphysical鈥檚 hymns, sermons, and meditations profound,
Emerge meaningful truths and introspections unbound.
鈥淣o Man Is an Island鈥 is humanity鈥檚 metaphor, or a 鈥渃onceit,鈥
With simple verses, he unites complex themes so discreet.
William Wordsworth
In a tranquil valley where daffodils sway in the breeze,
Above Tintern abbey with cliffs, hills, streams, and trees,
With a childlike wonder and nature鈥檚 sweet grace,
The nature poet reveals to us the soul鈥檚 sacred space.
Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, with a raven鈥檚 loud cry,
鈥淣evermore鈥 echoes, and both his lover and hope die.
With the ballads鈥 haunting rhymes and melodic beats,
In its refrain, the darkness and melancholy repeats.
Walt Whitman
鈥淭he Bard of Democracy鈥 breaks constraints of traditional norm,
In 鈥渟ongs of myself鈥 he takes a fluid and conversational form.
He sings of democracy and freedom in more than just politics,
He celebrates individuality, that every person is a unique mix.
Emily Dickinson
In quiet rooms she penned themes abstract like death,
With every dash in the lines marking every breath.
In her elegant piece 鈥淗ope is a thing with feathers,鈥
The bird of hope soars through storms untethered.
Robert Frost
With the inevitable regret coming from 鈥渢he road not taken,鈥
And the dangers of both 鈥渇ire and ice鈥 in the world we live in,
鈥淪topping by the woods鈥 and contemplating responsibility,
The beauty of nature mirroring the themes of humanity.
William Carlos Williams
The beauty of the commonplace found in lines so terse,
Capturing ordinary objects in casual yet vivid free verse.
In glass, plums, wheelbarrows, every line is a snapshot,
Revealing the unique wonders in what each life has brought.
Langston Hughes
He is 鈥渢he darker brother,鈥 facing injustice and dreams deferred,
Yet his words ignite, the hope to unite the races undeterred.
Shedding light on their plight, the white treating them unfair,
Yet their dignity upright, racial equality and justice he declares.
Conclusion
We owe it to these poets, who, with their passionate flow,
Reveal to us emotions and realities we did not know.
The words like echoes resonate with the depths of our soul,
Reading these lines of rhythm, we find ourselves whole.
(Yu Lexuan is a student at Shanghai Foreign Language School Affiliated to SISU)
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