Meaning of poem in English

(Definition of poem from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of poem from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of poem

poem
The regular pattern of alternating long and short syllables, which is reversed only in the middle, accounts for the measured pace of both poems.
The 1847 draft is not extant, but the 1860 revision survives along with the 1870 poem that was finally published.
The poem tells the reader a number of things.
The image faithfully represents the things described in the poem.
Perhaps this is an example of the audience helping to adjust the performance of a poem.
This prepares the way for the return of the poem's opening line.
In short, "the nation is an audience to be created by histories, poems, and pictures of a disappearing rural life" (28).
The poem has enduring significance because of its comment on the "transhistorical" nature of oppressive institutions.
Despite the chronological distance from his early work, the politics of these later poems do not reflect any substantial change in outlook.
Since readers had to guess the names, the poem must have had the character of a set of miniature riddles.
Plans to publish an illustrated edition of the poem were never realized.
By endowing wine with these attributes, the wine poem appropriates the spiritual realm and reveals its full character.
As a poem about echoes, these echoes are sounded in the present, invoke the past, but also look into the future.
It is very much in the nature of an epitaph, indeed almost literally so, as the first two lines of the poem make clear.
The magazine also included poems, essays, and letters on a wide variety of contemporary questions.
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Collocations with poem

poem

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collected poems
A collection of his dialect comedies appeared in 1923 and his collected poems were published in 1928.
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epic poem
There is also no dearth of commentary on the interpretations of the lessons of this epic poem.
famous poems
Beside these books his famous poems are: 1.
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Translations of poem

in Chinese (Traditional)
詩…
in Chinese (Simplified)
诗…
in Spanish
poema, poesía, poema [masculine…
in Portuguese
poema, poema [masculine]…
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कविता…
詩, 詩(し)…
şiir…
poème [masculine], poème…
poema…
gedicht…
சொற்கள் தனித்தனி வரிகளில் வரிசைப்படுத்தப்பட்டு, பெரும்பாலும் ரைம்ஸில் முடிவடைகின்றன, மேலும் அவற்றின் ஒலிக்காகவும் அவை பரிந்துரைக்கும் படங்கள் மற்றும் யோசனைகளுக்காகவும் தேர்ந்தெடுக்கப்படும் ஒரு எழுத்தும் முறை…
कविता…
કવિતા…
digt…
dikt, poem…
puisi…
das Gedicht…
dikt [neuter], dikt…
نظم, شاعری…
поема…
కవిత/ పదాలు వేర్వేరు పంక్తులలో అమర్చబడి, తరచుగా ప్రాసతో ముగిసే రచనా ప్రక్రియ. దీనిలో పదాలు వాటి ధ్వని కోసం, అవి సూచించే చిత్రాలు…
ছড়া, কবিতা…
báseň…
puisi…
บทกวี…
bài thơ…
wiersz…
(한 편의) 시…
poesia, poema…
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