an example of a poem written before 1900?
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)\n\n\nOscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish poet and dramatist whose reputation rests on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere's Fan(1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). Among Wilde's other best-known works are his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray(1891) and his fairy tales especially "The Happy Prince." \n\nWilde was born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin to unconventional parents - his mother Lady Jane Francesca Wilde (1820-96), was a poet and journalist. His father was Sir William Wilde, an Irish antiquarian, gifted writer, and specialist in diseases of the eye and ear. Wilde studied at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh (1864-71), Trinity College, Dublin (1871-74) and Magdalen College, Oxford (1874-78). \n\nIn 1878 Wilde received his B.A. and in the same year he moved to London. His lifestyle and humorous wit soon made him the spokesman for Aestheticism, the late 19th century movement in England that advocated art for art's sake. He worked as art reviewer (1881), lectured in the United States and Canada (1882), and lived in Paris (1883). Between the years 1883 and 1884 he lectured in Britain. From the mid-1880s he was a regular contributor for Pall Mall Gazette and Dramatic View. In 1884 Wilde married Constance Lloyd (died 1898), and to support his family Wilde edited in 1887-89 Woman's World. In 1888 he published The Happy Prince and Other Tales, fairy-stories written for his two sons. Wilde's marriage ended in 1893. He had met an few years earlier Lord Alfred Douglas, an athlete and a poet, who became both the love of the author's life and his downfall. \n\nWilde made his reputation in the theatre world between the years 1892 and 1895 with a series of highly popular plays. Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) dealt with a blackmailing divorcÃ©e driven to self-sacrifice by maternal love. In A Woman of No Importance (1893) an illegitimate son is torn between his father and mother. An Ideal Husband (1895) dealt with blackmail, political corruption and public and private honor. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) was about two fashionable young gentlemen and their eventually successful courtship. Before his theatrical success Wilde produced several essays. His two major literary-theoretical works were the dialogues "The Decay of Lying" (1889) and "The Critic as Artist" (1890). \n\nAlthough married and the father of two children, Wilde's personal life was open to rumors. His years of triumph ended dramatically, when his intimate association with Alfred Douglas led to his trial on charges of homosexuality (then illegal in Britain). He was sentenced to two years hard labor for the crime of sodomy. Wilde was first in Wandsworth prison, London, and then in Reading Gaol. During this time he wrote De Profundis (1905), a dramatic monologue and autobiography, which was addressed to Alfred Douglas. \n\nAfter his release in 1897 Wilde in Berneval, near Dieppe. He wrote "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", revealing his concern for inhumane prison conditions. Wilde died of cerebral meningitis on November 30, 1900, penniless, in a cheap Paris hotel at the age of 46. \n\n===============================================\n\nIN THE FOREST \n\n\nOut of the mid-wood's twilight\nInto the meadow's dawn,\nIvory limbed and brown-eyed,\nFlashes my Faun! \n\nHe skips through the copses singing,\nAnd his shadow dances along,\nAnd I know not which I should follow,\nShadow or song! \n\nO Hunter, snare me his shadow!\nO Nightingale, catch me his strain!\nElse moonstruck with music and madness\nI track him in vain! \n==============================================
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An example of classic haiku, or hokku, by Bashō:\n\n    古池や蛙飛込む水の音　\n    Furu ike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto\n\n    an old pond—\n    the sound of a frog jumping\n    into water \n\nThis example was taken from Wikipedia, where there are other examples. Click on the link below for more on haiku:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku\n\nHope this helps!
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findout_22 - 1974? What kind of answer is that? \n\nI suspect it is sometime in the ealr 1900s...probably 1912.
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If your looking for an epic poem, try Evangeline. It was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about a maiden and a search for her lover. It's based upon the expulsion of Acadians from Nova Scotia in 1755. The poem is long, but I highly recommend it.
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http://once-for-all.blogspot.com/\nhttp://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Angelou.htm\n\nU CAN ALSO TRY GOOGLE OR YAHOO SEARCH\nHOPE THIS HELPS\nMAY I HAVE 10 PTS. PLZ
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Read an article on this. It was rather interesting, it gave examples from both the New Testament and the Old as well as other Jewish texts.
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It is not a poem. It is originally from the novel by Charles Dickens,  A Tale of Two Cities.  It is the opening sentence to the novel.  The actual quote is: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.   It is one of the most famous lines in all of literature and quoted very often.  I believe the sentence concerns the French Revolution.
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The first book written explicitly for children was Little Pretty Pocket-Book by Newbery, 1744\n\nclick here:http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geurRoEldFyYMAMhdXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE2cTlsMmRsBGNvbG8DZQRsA1dTMQRwb3MDOARzZWMDc3IEdnRpZANERlg1XzMw/SIG=11r464bk0/EXP=1163420648/**http%3a//www.ils.unc.edu/%7eprier/KidLit/
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These are just a very few examples of different types of poetry. Most of the definitions have at least one example of each particular type of poetry for better understanding.\n\nClick link below for further information:
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Try\n\n15th century in literature \n14th century in literature - Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer \n13th century in literature \n12th century in literature \n11th century in literature \n10th century in literature \nEarly Medieval literature \nAncient literature \nRetrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_years_in_literature"
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the early 19th century
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I'm not sure of your question..... but there are volumes of good spiritual poetry available.... I enjoy some of the older poets.  If you go to http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bevan/tersteegen.toc.html   or just http://www.ccel.org you can read a bunch.... many of the older poems were to music - that's where the hymns came from!
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Awesome poem!\nAmazing!! lol...\nu were 10 or 11? that's so amazing!
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Choose from those in 'The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry' - not only English but Russian, French, German, Italian, American. Please remember these people were also involved in the wars! Personal favourites? 'Dulce et decorum est', Wilfred Owen - grandfather was a gas attack victim: 'The Kite', Aleksander Blok - 12 lines that could change your perception of warfare (first heard at a comrade's funeral!). Also, 'Do not Stand at My Grave and Weep', Anonymous - I served!
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One you wrote yourself,from the heart.\nNo other poem already written,will say quite what you want to say.
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Sometime in the 20th century
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Poet                   "Poem"\nWilliam Blake          "A Divine Image"\nEdmund Spenser         "My Love Is Like To Ice"\nJohn Donne             "Death Be Not Proud"\nLady Mary Chudleigh    "To The Ladies"\nWilliam Wordsworth     "I Wanddered Lonely As A Cloud"\nJohn Mccrae            "In Flanders Field"\nF.R. Scott             "Calamity"\nX.J. Kennedy           "Nude Descending A Staircase"