Howl by Allen Ginsberg

For Carl Solomon I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz, who bared their brains to Heaven under the El and saw Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated, who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy among the scholars of war, who were expelled from the academies for crazy & publishing obscene odes on the windows of the skull, who cowered in unshaven rooms in underwear, burning their money in wastebaskets and listening to the Terror through the wall, who studied Plotinus Poe St. Moloch! Moloch! Moloch! Visions! Dreams!

55 Types of Poetry Forms This article contains the many different poem types. These include all known (at least to my research) forms that poems may take. If you wish to read more about poetry, these articles might interest you: poetry technique and poetry definition. A poem that has five lines and creates a mood, picture, or feeling. Acrostic Poetry that certain letters, usually the first in each line form a word or message when read in a sequence. Article continues below... Ballad A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend which often has a repeated refrain. Ballade Poetry which has three stanzas of seven, eight or ten lines and a shorter final stanza of four or five. Blank verse A poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter and is often unobtrusive. Bio A poem written about one self's life, personality traits, and ambitions. Burlesque Poetry that treats a serious subject as humor. Canzone Medieval Italian lyric style poetry with five or six stanzas and a shorter ending stanza. Carpe diem Cinquain Concrete

Poets' Corner Introduction Welcome to Poets' Corner, one of the largest and oldest text resources on the web. The goal of this ongoing project is to develop a user-friendly library that is both a useful reference and an appealing place to browse and explore - and there is plenty of material here to explore. The collection covers roughly 7,000 works by about 800 poets - including some of the best known works in the English language - and many obscure and forgotten works that are well worth reading . Since its inception in 1994, this site has grown through thousands of hours of transcription, editing and coding, through the efforts of the site editors, and through the contributions of volunteers around the world. Searching for Content There are many ways to search and browse the content of this site. Thanks to the efforts of Jon Lachelt there is an annotated Subject Index with 44 topics, A Title Index, a First Line Index and a Combined Index, and a roughly Chronological Index. Additional Features

Glossary Acatalectic see Catalectic Accent (Latin, ‘song added to speech’) A stressed syllable or ictus. Accentual verse Lines whose rhythm arises from its stressed syllables rather than from the number of its syllables, or from the length of time devoted to their sounding. Accentual-syllabic verse Lines whose rhythm arises by the number and alternation of its stressed and unstressed syllables, organized into feet. Acephalous (Greek, ‘headless’) A line of verse without its expected initial syllable. Acrostic (Greek, ‘at the tip of the verse’) A word, phrase, or passage spelled out vertically by the first letters of a group of lines in sequence. Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in acrostick land: There thou may'st wings display, and altars raise, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways. See also Telestich. Action poetry Verse written for performance by several voices. Adonic Aesthetic Movement Alcaics Alexandrine Allegory (Greek, ‘speaking otherwise’) Alliteration Allusion Bob