poem

poem
noun
ADJECTIVE
beautiful, fine, good, great
famous
collected, selected

His collected poems were published after the war.

anonymous
autobiographical
long, short
dramatic, epic, heroic, lyric, narrative
prose
love, war
humorous, nonsense, satirical
… OF POEMS
anthology, collection
VERB + POEM
compose, write
read

She read the poem aloud.

recite
know by heart, learn by heart (esp. BrE)
dedicate

He dedicated the poem to his mother.

publish
POEM + VERB
be addressed to sb
PREPOSITION
in a/the poem

Wordsworth describes his boyhood in his autobiographical poem ‘The Prelude’.

poem about

a poem about cultural differences


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  • poem — POÉM, poeme, s.n. 1. (Adesea fig.) Specie a poeziei epice, de întindere relativ mare, cu caracter eroic, filozofic, istoric, mitologic, legendar etc. ♢ Poem în proză = specie a prozei literare aparţinând genului liric, cultivată din a două… …   Dicționar Român

  • Poem — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Poem Álbum de estudio de Bridges Publicación Cancelado Grabación 1980 1981 …   Wikipedia Español

  • poem — [pō′əm] n. [MFr poeme < L poema < Gr poiēma, anything made, poem < poiein, to make < IE base * kwei , to heap up, build, make > Sans cinōti, (he) arranges, OSlav činiti, to arrange, form] 1. an arrangement of words written or… …   English World dictionary

  • Poem — Po em, n. [L. po[ e]ma, Gr. ?, fr. ? to make, to compose, to write, especially in verse: cf. F. po[ e]me.] 1. A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • poem — ► NOUN ▪ a literary composition in verse, typically concerned with the expression of feelings or imaginative description. ORIGIN Grek po ma, variant of poi ma fiction, poem , from poiein create …   English terms dictionary

  • Poēm — (lat. poëma), Gedicht …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Poem — Poēm (lat. poema), Gedicht …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Poem — Poem,das:⇨Gedicht(1) …   Das Wörterbuch der Synonyme

  • Poem — нем. [поэм], англ. [по/уим] poema ит. [поэ/ма] поэма …   Словарь иностранных музыкальных терминов

  • poem — (n.) 1540s (replacing POESY (Cf. poesy)), from M.Fr. poème (14c.), from L. poema verse, poetry, from Gk. poema thing made or created, fiction, poetical work, from poein to make or compose (see POET (Cf. poet)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • poem — [n] highly expressive, rhythmical literary piece ballad, beat, blank verse, composition, creation, epic, free verse, haiku, limerick, lines, lyric, ode, poesy, poetry, quatrain, rhyme, rime, rune, sestina, song, sonnet, verse, villanelle, words,… …   New thesaurus

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