long poem

collocation in English

meaningsoflongandpoem

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long
adjective
uk
/lɒŋ/us
/lɑːŋ/
continuing for a large amount ...
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poem
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpəʊ.ɪm/us
/ˈpoʊ.əm/
a piece of writing in which the words are arranged in separate lines, often ending in rhyme, and are chosen for their sound and for the images and ideas ...
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(Definition oflongandpoemfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Perhaps the most striking and mysterious breakouts occur within quasi-lyric genres such as rings and cycles, and in thelongpoem.
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The consequent pleasures of reading are more comparable to those of reading a good novel or alongpoemthan is often the case with textbooks.
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What unites each of these subgenres under the heading oflongpoemis that their length has importance in their meaning.
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Other sub-genres of thelongpoeminclude lyric sequence, series, collage, and verse-novel.
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Even though it includes the myth from the epic, the revised telling of the myth makes thelongpoemstand out as its own form.
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Poets attempting to write alongpoemoften struggle to find the right form or combination of forms to use.
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The termlongpoemincludes all the generic expectations of epic and the reactions against those expectations.
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An awdl is a form oflongpoem, similar to the ode.
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This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label oflongpoemis selectively and inconsistently applied in literary academia.
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Though the termlongpoemmay be elusive to define, the term is now finally getting the attention it deserves.
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One of his major interests is thelongpoem.
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She wrote over 25 books, including one collection of poems, two dramas and onelongpoembetween 1873 and 1914.
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In general, a poem is alongpoemwhen its length enhances and expands upon the thematic, creative, and formal weight of the poem.
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In any case, no unifiedlongpoemis possible.
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One of these was a highly experimentallongpoem, or zany epic, on which he had been working for a dozen years.
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The original edition was 75 pages long and comprised 91 individually titled poems, which were intended to be read as a singlelongpoem.
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It is alongpoemconsisting of nearly 100,000 stanzas elucidating a chronicle of his masters achievements and the historical accounts.
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They were formerly transmitted as onelongpoem.
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