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While beauty may fade from the real world, it will not fade from the eternal words that have been written, and so the speaker’s beloved will forever remain a stunningly beautiful and perfect creature in his eyes. But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears. A Quoi Bon Dire’ was published in Charlotte Mew’s 1916 volume The Farmer’s Bride. The French title of this poem, ‘A Quoi Bon Dire’, translates as ‘what good is there to say’. It’s a beautifully moving poem about lovers divided but then, the speaker hopes, reunited in death. Juxtaposition as a literary device can be lighthearted, such as a friendship between a lion and a mouse, or it can give power and emotional resonance to a scene, such as young soldiers leaving for grim battle on a perfectly beautiful summer’s day. Effective use of juxtaposition can change the tone of an entire poem. 12. Metaphor Li, Y.; Li, C.; Liu, S.; Lei, T.; Jiang, Y. An Initially-Controlled Double-Scroll Hyperchaotic Map. Int. J. Bifurc. Chaos 2022, 32, 2250119. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef]

Poetic devices are techniques and methods writers use to construct effective poems. These poetic devices work on the levels of line-by-line syntax and rhythm, which make your poetry engaging and memorable; and they work on the deeper, thematic level, which makes your poetry matter to the reader. The use of the term “hymn” as a title for the poem also directly connects this poem to ideas of spirituality and how that connects to our understanding of beauty as a concept. She Walks in Beauty is probably one of the most famous poems about beauty. In the case of this particular poem, it is one of the many famous poems about beautiful women. The speaker compares this female character to other beautiful things, such as a beautiful nighttime sky that is clear and full of stars. Other natural images are also used to highlight this beautiful woman. Comparisons to the natural world are rather common when it comes to famous poems about beauty because the natural world is one that we generally agree is stunning without requiring further justification. life pays for its unique prerogative of reality by satiety and decay, while Art in forfeiting reality gains in exchange permanence of beauty, and the power to charm by imagined experiences even richer than the real.”The true purpose of a rhyme scheme is to give your poetry rhythm, which is the shape and pattern a poem takes. What it comes down to is getting your words inside the reader’s bones. Rhyme is one way to do this, and meter is another. So are line-level poetic devices like assonance, consonance, and alliteration. Ode on a Grecian Urn is a poem about art. However, this ode, which is a type of poem that serves as a celebration of something, examines the beauty of art in a bit of a different sense to other poems about beauty. This poem examines and describes an urn, and that urn is one of ancient Greek origin that has beautiful carvings on it, and those carvings show the world as the creators of it had experienced, and those creators have long since died. The urn is all that remains. The beauty of the art upon it has transcended time to remain eternal, and the scenes depicted on it have been captured for all to see for all time. There are a great many famous poems about beauty, but some of the most notable include those we have discussed today, such as Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (1609) by William Shakespeare, She Walks in Beauty (1814) by Lord Byron, and Still will I harvest beauty where it grows (1920) by Edna St. Vincent Millay. This is a tiny selection of the poems that focus on this form, and so it is a minuscule subset of what all is out there in terms of famous poems about beauty. It is also worth noting that Shakespeare is the only poet in this list of poems about beauty that gets two entries and that even Shakespeare could see the juxtaposition between the physical beauty of Sonnet 18 and this sonnet. These poems offer a romantic and often tragic exploration of beauty’s power over the heart, expressing the passion and intensity that beauty can evoke. 1. You’re So Beautiful

For that sweet odour which doth in it live. 16. “Sonnet: To Tartar, a Terrier Beauty” by Thomas Lovell Beddoes cummings (note the lower-case letters) was an American modernist and one of the most individual poets of the last hundred years, as the very styling of his name suggests. In five brief free-verse lines, Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961), also known as ‘H. D.’, ponders a mysterious thing she finds in a pool, in a poem that raises more questions than it settles. Beautifully teasing yet elegant, its central image is enticing and memorable. Liu, S.; Li, Y.; Ge, X.; Li, C.; Zhao, Y. A novel hyperchaotic map and its application in fast video encryption. Phys. Scr. 2022, 97, 085210. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] Li, Y.; Li, C.; Zhang, S.; Chen, G.; Zeng, Z. A Self-reproduction hyperchaotic map with compound lattice dynamics. IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron. 2022, 69, 10564–10572. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef]Zhang, X.; Li, C.; Chen, Y.; Herbert, H.C.; Lei, T. A memristive chaotic oscillator with controllable amplitude and frequency. Chaos Solitons Fractals 2020, 139, 110000. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef]

It’s a good idea to experiment with different kinds of rhythm in your poetry, though many poets develop a comfortable rhythmic place in which their poetry feels most at home. 22. Simile Read more… 2. Sonnet 54 by William Shakespeare An old book with “Shakespeare” written on the cover. Like anaphora, chiasmus can draw attention to a contrasting idea and make a memorable impression on the reader. 7. Consonance Li, C.; Sprott, J.C. Multistability in a butterfly flow. Int. J. Bifurc. Chaos 2013, 23, 1350199. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef]While the arguments might be true, it is worth recognizing and pointing out that regardless of all these ambiguities, poetry itself is beautiful. Li, C.; Xu, Y.; Chen, G.; Liu, Y.; Zheng, J. Conditional symmetry: Bond for attractor growing. Nonlinear Dyn. 2019, 95, 1245–1256. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] A celebration of the universe’s connectedness, “Stream of life” reflects Tagore’s world view that humans create their own segregation. The rhythm and flow of the poem, along with lively descriptions of the stream of life like ‘dancing in rhythmic measures’, or ‘shooting with joy’ will uplift your mood instantly. The poem leaves us with an innate sense of belonging to the world we live in. Seen from Tagore’s lens, isn’t this an incredible world to be part of? 23. "Still I Rise", by Maya Angelou

Published in 1915, this poem is a classic example of imagism, that short-lived modernist movement in poetry that was active around the time of the First World War. On reading “A Psalm of Life” , you might just feel an instant urge to live your best life. The poem rejects the idea that life can be broken down into meaningless, emotionless metrics. It advocates that life is neither made to suffer through, nor is it made to solely enjoy. While both these emotions are a part of the journey, the purpose of life is ‘to act’, improve oneself, and make each day better than the previous one. 13. "Do not go gentle into that good night", by Dylan Thomas Poetry uses literary devices such as metaphors, similes, assonance, personification, imagery, alliteration, and others to humanize inanimate objects or animals, convey certain meanings and themes, and provide a deeper understanding of things. Beauty is a romantic poem written by John Edward Mayfield. The poem compares what is beautiful and what one loves in the world. The poet seems to be enslaved by the beauty of his beloved. He compares his beloved to all the beauties of nature but finds his beloved the most beautiful.Examples could be a skull to represent death, a dove to represent peace, or the sun and the moon to represent masculine and feminine polarities. By tapping into this pre-existing cultural consciousness, the poet has an entirely new language with which to communicate. 24. Synecdoche Wordsworth’s "My Heart Leaps Up" emphasizes the importance of retaining a child-like sense of enthusiasm throughout life. The poem begins by the speaker stating the joy he feels on seeing a rainbow, the very same delight he first felt when he saw it as a child. The poem argues that adults should not let this child-like sense of awe and appreciation for nature die out, as it is what makes life worth living. 40. "Life Is", by Mother Teresa Written by the great 13th-century Persian poet, "The Guest House" is a call for acceptance — one that is, unsurprisingly, often invoked in mindfulness circles. Rumi uses the metaphor of a guest house, likening it to the mind. Much like guests in a lodge, thoughts arrive in our head one after another— some making us happy, sad, and even uncomfortable. This poem serves as a reminder to not resist life’s painful thoughts, but to welcome them with warmth and good grace. 7. "from Milk and Honey", by Rupi Kaur These interesting poems about beauty offer a lighthearted and humorous take on beauty, poking fun at the often-serious reputation that it holds. 1. In Bloom A Poetic Romance Endymion sleeping, detail from a scene with the legend of Endymion and Selene. (Image credit: Louvre Museum on Wikimedia Commons CC BY 3.0)