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A fable is a poetic story composed in verse or prose with a moral summed up at the end, using animals as characters to teach a valuable lesson. This is about a little fight between a mountain and a squirrel.
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Ode on Grecian urn is an ekphrasis poem dedicated to an urn from Greece that’s telling immortal stories about the pictures that are depicted on it. These stories mesmerize the speaker.
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‘Advice to a girl’ is a short one-paragraph poem, but with a very strong message. An advice that the one who is worthy might never be yours. And it’s up to you to decide how to move on.
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![Fire and Ice by Robert rost](https://updivine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Fire-and-Ice-by-Robert-Frost-600x360.png)
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Robert Frost chooses the best alternative as a mode of destruction if the world had to end this moment. He chooses the better mode from amongst ‘fire’ and ‘ice’. He is also giving justification for his choice.
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![I Thought I Could Not Be Hurt by Sylvia Plath](https://updivine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Sylvia-Plaths-1-600x360.png)
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‘I Thought That I Could Not be Hurt’ is one of the first poems written by Sylvia Plath during her teenage years with a sad undertone. In this poem, she wants to express how her life was happy and joyful. And how these pleasant feelings aren’t permanent.
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![Dust if you must by Rose Milligan](https://updivine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Dust-if-you-Must-by-Rose-Milligan-600x360.png)
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“Dust If You Must” is a beautiful poem by Rose Milligan that reminds you to make most of your life, before your hands’ loose grasp of it. It emphasizes the importance of doing things that satisfy your soul.
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Love’s Philosophy is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley where the speaker of the poem is trying to woo the addressee. S/he calls for their union stating that it is the divine law of nature.
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![The Brook by Alfred Lord Tennyson](https://updivine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/The-Brook-600x360.png)
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This stream joins the river, its final destiny. And The Brooks (as personified by Alfred Lord Tennyson) mocks the humans as ordinary mortals who get consumed by time.
Sir Tennyson’s love for nature is evident from the fact that how beautifully he adds sensuality in the description of a river.
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![Abou Ben Adhem by James Henry Leigh Hunt](https://updivine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Abou-Ben-Adhem-by-James-Henry-Leigh-Hunt-600x360.png)
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“Abou Ben Adhem” is a short poem that says the best expression of the love of God is the love for fellow human beings. It’s neither the prayers nor the church services that get you in the good books of God.
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![A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns](https://updivine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/A-RED-RED-ROSE-1-600x360.png)
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In “the red, red rose”, Robert Burns is directly speaking to his love. He wants to convey how he will love her till eternity. The distance between them is just physical and temporary.
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This is an extremely sad poem, much like the life of Emily Dickinson. A poem about her appraisal of the sadness and grief that she meets, and I bet she meets many. This poem just keeps getting sad until the last couple of paragraphs, where she reveals that other’s grief gives her comfort. It is others too, who have suffered. And some of the pains are like hers.
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