It tells the tale of gods and kings and great journeys and battles. In fact one of the oldest poems discovered on ancient tablets is the Epic of Gilgamesh from Mesopotamia around 2000 BC. Poems can be traced back to ancient times in the second and third millennium BC and were often used to tell epic tales. Sometimes a poem is used to tell a story. The simple beauty of the format or as a way to invoke feelings and emotions in a way that is not possible with a straightforward piece of text. The genre is about the structure and not the content so you will find everything covered here on obooko. Poetry books can cover a huge range of topics. The common theme is the way the poem is structured with a rhythm. Different cultures have different formats, for examples the Japanese haiku. Verse can take many forms – long poems, short poems, rhyming or not rhyming. Well, now is a good opportunity to change that and download poetry online
It’s very likely you will have studied the subject at school but that might be the last time that you picked up a book of poems. You might think poetry is a more specialist genre or is old fashioned but you probably know more about poems than you think.
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