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单词 poem
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Definition of poem in English:

poem

noun ˈpəʊɪm
  • A piece of writing in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by particular attention to diction (sometimes involving rhyme), rhythm, and imagery.

    the sun is an important symbol in this poem
    a poem in terza rima
    lyric poems
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Parents were treated to a morning of songs, poems and music by their Junior Classes.
    • He wasn't going to be able to write great passionate love poems or poems of travel.
    • I had ideas for a poem last week while I was driving back from one of our other sites.
    • Here again the listless rhythms gather images and ideas into poems of real power.
    • It was a grand affair, with troop parades, poems, songs, a feast and the unveiling of a trophy.
    • Without the old winters, a lot of our seasonal poems, rhymes and novels don't make sense.
    • No, Kylie has written a poem especially for the piece which has been incorporated into the score!
    • When he's not writing protest poems about saving rocks, Albert ponders the meaning of life.
    • He said they also used old poems and ballads which were used as lyrics for the songs.
    • The group spent the morning working on a descriptive piece of writing and poems about people they knew.
    • Extant works include ecclesiastical poems, rhythmical verse, and a number of letters.
    • After you've completed the evaluation, you'll read some of my poems to get an idea of how to go about it.
    • We discover why the epic poem is considered one of the greatest works of the human spirit.
    • I, too, hung up the receiver and went into my room to check some books for ideas of fall poems.
    • Modern readers continue to debate whether the poems express platonic friendship or sexual love.
    • So many of her poems express some combination of confusion and lament about the decline.
    • Like Paradise Lost this piece is both a moral and political treatise and an epic poem.
    • The friends wrote the original stories, poems and songs that are used on the CDs and provided the voices.
    • After the elegies and hymns and poems, the retired minister rose to speak on tottering legs but with a voice like a vice.
    • Her class had been preparing for his visit by writing autumn poems of their own and reading some of his books.
    Synonyms
    verse, song, rhyme, piece of poetry, verse composition, metrical composition
    rare verselet

Origin

Late 15th century: from French poème or Latin poema, from Greek poēma, early variant of poiēma 'fiction, poem', from poiein 'create'.

 
 

Definition of poem in US English:

poem

noun
  • 1A piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanzaic structure.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Here again the listless rhythms gather images and ideas into poems of real power.
    • Without the old winters, a lot of our seasonal poems, rhymes and novels don't make sense.
    • We discover why the epic poem is considered one of the greatest works of the human spirit.
    • I had ideas for a poem last week while I was driving back from one of our other sites.
    • So many of her poems express some combination of confusion and lament about the decline.
    • He wasn't going to be able to write great passionate love poems or poems of travel.
    • When he's not writing protest poems about saving rocks, Albert ponders the meaning of life.
    • After you've completed the evaluation, you'll read some of my poems to get an idea of how to go about it.
    • No, Kylie has written a poem especially for the piece which has been incorporated into the score!
    • Parents were treated to a morning of songs, poems and music by their Junior Classes.
    • The group spent the morning working on a descriptive piece of writing and poems about people they knew.
    • The friends wrote the original stories, poems and songs that are used on the CDs and provided the voices.
    • Extant works include ecclesiastical poems, rhythmical verse, and a number of letters.
    • Her class had been preparing for his visit by writing autumn poems of their own and reading some of his books.
    • Like Paradise Lost this piece is both a moral and political treatise and an epic poem.
    • He said they also used old poems and ballads which were used as lyrics for the songs.
    • Modern readers continue to debate whether the poems express platonic friendship or sexual love.
    • I, too, hung up the receiver and went into my room to check some books for ideas of fall poems.
    • It was a grand affair, with troop parades, poems, songs, a feast and the unveiling of a trophy.
    • After the elegies and hymns and poems, the retired minister rose to speak on tottering legs but with a voice like a vice.
    Synonyms
    verse, song, rhyme, piece of poetry, verse composition, metrical composition
    1. 1.1 Something that arouses strong emotions because of its beauty.
      you make a poem of riding downhill on your bike

Origin

Late 15th century: from French poème or Latin poema, from Greek poēma, early variant of poiēma ‘fiction, poem’, from poiein ‘create’.

 
 
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