noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
know a song/tune/poem etc (= be able to sing a song, play a tune, say a poem etc because you have learned it )
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Do you know all the words to ‘As Time Goes By’?
tone poem
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
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The absence of panegyric in itself sets Leapor's poem apart from earlier country house poems.
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In this anthology the earliest poems included were some previously unpublished works dating from 1916 to 1921.
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Wordsworth later made changes in the text - as in most of his early poems - mainly to please Coleridge.
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The thematic range and the technique of the earlier poems have not been replaced by a new poetic style.
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Shakespeare's early poems sketch that double vision and later many of his heroes are plagued by it.
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The early war poems had promoted patriotism, justice and principle.
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Two early poems appear to shed some light on what happened.
epic
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The action of a traditional epic poem is further complicated in that it deals with the relation of human beings to gods.
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Zach was to finish his epic poem and write a report on the Christmas Show.
famous
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He was suddenly seeing right into the crystalline spaces of the famous poem .
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Extreme simplicity of vocabulary, economy of imagery, regularity of form, and a deservedly famous poem .
long
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In late 1919 Eliot resolved to begin a long poem .
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In 1876 he wrote the long poem Clarel to express his disillusionment.
lyric
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The relation between these elements and terms, and the lyric poem , is then discussed.
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It is the interrelationship of these points that enables the analysis of deixis in the genre of the lyric poem to proceed.
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In the discourse of the lyric poem it is unlikely that we can ascribe indexical meaning to symbolic elements of deictic terms.
other
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There are other poems attacking the Friend in which the Poet writes from a closer perspective.
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Although in other poems Leapor shows that labouring class women can be desperately unhappy in marriage, she is not unequivocal.
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There were also two libretti for oratorios probably dating from 1765, as well as other miscellaneous poems .
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In Hvar, Zadar and the other cities, poems and dramas continued to appear.
short
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I particularly recall one short poem .
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In return he composed short poems of thanks.
■ NOUN
love
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At night we lay in bed and read the love poems of Ovid from a book she had found in the library.
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I was in my night-gown already, doing our assignment, a love poem in the form of a sonnet.
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Most are love poems -- in a way.
tone
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I take a certain perverse pleasure in offering one of these a-topical tone poems , unsolicited and out of date.
■ VERB
compose
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And if you intend to compose your own poems , limericks or verses, a songwriter's rhyming dictionary would be invaluable.
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Presumably Mira is composing a poem , counting the syllables as she walks.
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In return he composed short poems of thanks.
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With Donald Crubach's help, he played the harp and sang, and started again to compose songs and poems .
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His movements were slow, his gaze abstracted, as if he were composing a poem in his head.
publish
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Its author Tom Holt began, if I remember right, by publishing his collected poems at the age of 12.
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Before long, Evan had published the poem shown in Figure 3. 13.
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Koelz had also published anti-war poems , under the guise of Johannes Matthaeus.
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Unfortunately, the editor to whom it was submitted refused to publish a poem he found incomprehensible.
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Faber and Faber published the poem as a pamphlet in September, and it sold almost 12,000 copies.
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She began to publish her poems in such places as Harper's, and won a guest post on the magazine Mademoiselle.
read
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He is planning to read a 100-line poem about suicide from the top of Nelson's Column.
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And that same electric veering-out for me reading the sunflower poem at age 18.
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He insists that the Faerie Queene is to be read as a Gothic poem .
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Reading him like this, so stripped of context, you no longer feel compelled to read the poems as a student.
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At night we lay in bed and read the love poems of Ovid from a book she had found in the library.
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Obviously a good deal more could be read into the poem if one really tried.
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After MacLeish, with excruciating self-consciousness, read her the poem , Margarett told him she had previously seen it.
recite
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O'Lone recited a poem about a little house with roses at the gate and a bird in the tree that went tra-la-la.
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Suppose you were required, as a child, to recite a poem in front of your class.
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She recited a poem to him that was well-known in the district.
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She had a circle of people around her, listening to her reciting a poem !
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Unfortunately, Petherbridge rather undermines this theory by reciting his own atrociously-rhymed poem .
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As luck has it, the school where Evita began reciting poems in the sixth grade is just across the street.
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He came because he could recite poems , particularly Rudyard Kipling, and at great length.
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She knew the origin of every obscure couplet imaginable, and could usually recite the whole poem which went with it.
write
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Yeats wrote out his poems in prose first: it is a discipline which works.
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In 1876 he wrote the long poem Clarel to express his disillusionment.
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At eight, she wrote a poem about mortality.
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She started to write poems to express her feelings.
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But most enthralling was her attraction to two people for whom she wrote her most ardent poems .
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If he were a poet he would write a poem to that glimpse of bare ankle.
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Others wrote poems , plays, stories, songs, novels, even a fake autobiography of the Jersey Jumper.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
collected works/poems/essays/edition
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Box sets collect music into greatest hits, anthologies, chronologies, complete collected works, best-of and worst-of packages.
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He took down a copy of Wordsworth's collected poems.
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His collected works, he said, probably fill four foot ten of shelf space.
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Its author Tom Holt began, if I remember right, by publishing his collected poems at the age of 12.
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Mr Zhivkov's 44-volume collected works has disappeared from Sofia's bookshops since he was removed.
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My collected works rendered the Horsehead Nebula, goofy space cruisers, robots, and Saturn.
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They were first printed by William Caxton in 1475; the collected works were first illustrated by William Thynne in 1532.
compose a letter/poem/speech etc
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His movements were slow, his gaze abstracted, as if he were composing a poem in his head.
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Me and my sore back composed a letter to Martina.
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Presumably Mira is composing a poem, counting the syllables as she walks.
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She began to compose a letter in her head, then rejected the idea.
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The trainee is expected to compose a letter and a memo from short notes provided.
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Then he turned over the piece of paper and composed a letter to his wife, Olga.
nonsense poems/verse/rhymes
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Which artist was famous for his nonsense rhymes? 09.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All time in this poem seems to be a running-down.
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Ever since, her wonderful paintings and delightful poems have charmed adults and children the world over.
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He collaborated with the likes of Jasper Johns and Larry Rivers, scribbling poems to match / mismatch their images.
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I think your work will get overripe unless more poems like this one begin to emerge.
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Indeed, he is hateful throughout the Iliad, poem of war though it is.
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They should read a selection of material that includes short stories, novels, plays and poems.
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Wordsworth tells us that the poem refers to his daughter Catherine, who died in 1812.