I need a good long poem for english! Any ideas, besides Edgar allen poe?

Question

preferably w/ lots of figurative devices, such as metaphors, similes, synechdochee, etc...

Less than 130 lines long

Answer 1

I would recommend 'The Highwayman', by Alfred Noyes. I don't know the line count, but it includes great similes, alliteration, and so on.

Answer 2

"The Walrus and the Carpenter" by Lewis Carroll. About 106 lines. I memorized this when I was in grade 6 and can still recite it these many years later. A fun poem that's easy to remember. I'm not sure if it has all those figurative devices you ask for, but look it over and you'll see.

"The Wreck of the Hesperus" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. - about 106 lines also. I really don't know this poem but it fits your criteria for metaphors and similes. (I have no idea what 'synechdochee' means.)

Answer 3

The Architects

But, as you'd expect, they are very
Impatient, the buildings, having much in them
Of the heavy surf of the North Sea, flurrying
The grit, lifting the pebbles, flinging them
With a hoarse roar against the aggregate

They are composed of — the cliffs higher of course,
More burdensome, underwritten as
It were with past days overcast
And glinting, obdurate, part of the
Silicate of tough lives, distant and intricate

As the whirring bureaucrats let in
And settled with coffee in the concrete pallets,
Awaiting the post and the department meeting —
Except that these do not know it, at least do not
Seem to, being busy, generally.

So perhaps it is only on those cloudless, almost
Vacuumed afternoons with tier upon tier
Of concrete like rib-bones packed above them,
And they light-headed with the blue airiness
Spinning around, and muzzy, a neuralgia

Calling at random like frail relations, a phone
Ringing in a distant office they cannot get to,
That they become attentive, or we do — these
Divisions persisting, indeed what we talk about,
We, constructing these webs of buildings which,

Caulked like great whales about us, are always
Aware that some trick of the light or weather
Will dress them as friends, pleading and flailing —
And fill with placid but unbearable melodies
Us in deep hinterlands of incurved glass.

© C. John Holcombe 1997

Answer 4

Eloise to Abelard, by Alexander Pope. It's like 5 pages long! They used a line from this poem in that movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Answer 5

O Captain, My Captain
by Walt Whitman

The poem is about Abraham Lincoln's assassination after having brought the country successfully through the US Civil War.

Answer 6

The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner

Answer 7

John Donne! Anything by him...but Valediction Forbidding Mourning is fantastic. As is The Flea, but that may be too short.

Answer 8

i admire Poe, the autumn of the abode of Usher replaced into continuously my sought after tale, Annabel Lee is my sought after poem mq:A Dream interior of a Dream via The Alan Parsons challenge bq: J.D. Salinger

Answer 9

The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

Garden of Proserpine by Algernon Charles Swinburne

These are two of my favorites. Good luck, and I hope this helps! :)

Answer 10

Frost at Midnight