Not all beauty is purely physical, and the inner beauty of a person is often far more important than any external beauty could ever be. The use of the term “hymn” as a title for the poem also directly connects this poem to ideas of spirituality and how that connects to our understanding of beauty as a concept.

A celebration of the universe’s connectedness, “Stream of life” reflects Tagore’s world view that humans create their own segregation. The rhythm and flow of the poem, along with lively descriptions of the stream of life like ‘dancing in rhythmic measures’, or ‘shooting with joy’ will uplift your mood instantly. The poem leaves us with an innate sense of belonging to the world we live in. Seen from Tagore’s lens, isn’t this an incredible world to be part of? 23. "Still I Rise", by Maya Angelou Li, C.; Wang, R.; Ma, X.; Jiang, Y.; Liu, Z. Embedding any desired number of coexisting attractors in memristive system. Chin. Phys. B 2021, 30, 120511. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] A single sentence broken up into 8 small lines, Anaïs Nin’s “Risk” uses a flower as a metaphor, to remind us that there will come a day when the pain of complacency will exceed the pain of actually daring to make a change. The poem serves as an understated call to action — make the change now, no matter how scary. 2. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", by Robert Frost Almatroud, A.O.; Matouk, A.E.; Mohammed, W.W.; Iqbal, N.; Alshammari, S. Self-excited and hidden chaotic attractors in Matouk’s hyperchaotic systems. Discret. Dyn. Nat. Soc. 2022, 2022, 6458027. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef]There are poems about beauty that focus on the inner beauty of a person, such as some of those below, but beauty is also a catchall term that is very subjective. It does not solely relate to people. A landscape can be beautiful, a piece of art can be beautiful, an idea can be beautiful. It depends on the ways in which we choose to view this particular idea. Below, we will see a variety of poems that look at beauty. Hopefully, it should give a good overview of what poems are capable of with regard to an understanding and appreciation of beauty. When these ideas are used once in your poem, they’re a poetic device called symbolism. To be a motif, they’d need to be used in repetition, with each interval creating stronger and stronger links between the themes of the poem and the reader’s understanding of the world. 16. Myth

It’s also used in poetry and poetic prose to add emphasis to the idea. In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo says, “This is not Romeo, he’s some other where”, interjecting “other” into “somewhere” for emphasis. Tmesis is a fun poetic device to play around with, that allows you to begin looking at words in a different way. 26. Tone On the whole, poetry is the most equipped literary form to use when talking about beauty: it is just short enough not to bore the reader and tooled up with the necessary devices. 12 of the Best Poems about Beauty 1. Beauty by Gustav Davidson Beautiful is a poem about beauty that is far more critical than many such poems tend to be. In this case, the poem examines the pitfalls that come with beauty. It looks at a number of different instances of feminine beauty and what they have led to, such as death and infidelity. Essentially, the poem wants us to consider that beauty, which is often taken as a purely positive thing, can have negative aspects. It can be powerful, and it can allow one to control others in some sense, but it can also lead to exploitation and other tragic realities.Some blank verse uses internal rhyme, or words that rhyme within a line rather than at the end. Blank verse is a great way to add a poetic levity to writing that would otherwise read like prose. 6. Chiasmus Similar to a metaphor, a metonym is a poetic device which uses an image or idea to stand in place of something. John Keats' 1820 ode to the fall season is one of the great classics of the poetic movement of Romanticism. The poem is a rich description of the beautyof autumn that focuses on both its lush and sensual fruitfulness and the melancholy hint of shorter days. Keats ends his poem evoking the closing of the season and finding a parallel in the beauty of an early-evening sunset. His words depict the haunting beauty in the quiet winding down into winter.

Seeing the range of word-level tools available to you as a writer can be both exciting and a little overwhelming. As you can see, the twenty-six unassuming little letters of the English language carry within them a world of possibility—the poet just needs to know how to make them dance. On reading “A Psalm of Life” , you might just feel an instant urge to live your best life. The poem rejects the idea that life can be broken down into meaningless, emotionless metrics. It advocates that life is neither made to suffer through, nor is it made to solely enjoy. While both these emotions are a part of the journey, the purpose of life is ‘to act’, improve oneself, and make each day better than the previous one. 13. "Do not go gentle into that good night", by Dylan Thomas A motif is a symbol or idea that appears repeatedly to help support what the poet is trying to communicate. In poetry, motifs are often things with which we already have a cultural relationship—bodies of water to represent purity, sunrises to represent new beginnings, storm clouds to represent dramatic change. Tone is the not-entirely-quantifiable mood, or atmosphere, of your piece. Some poets are great at crafting dark, haunting poetry; others write poems full of soft sunshine that make you think of a languid summer morning in the grass.

13. "Do not go gentle into that good night", by Dylan Thomas

It’s a good idea to experiment with different kinds of rhythm in your poetry, though many poets develop a comfortable rhythmic place in which their poetry feels most at home. 22. Simile Li, C.; Sprott, J.C.; Hu, W.; Xu, Y. Infinite multistability in a self-reproducing chaotic system. Int. J. Bifurc. Chaos 2017, 27, 1750160. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] Li, C.; Sprott, J.C. How to bridge attractors and repellors. Int. J. Bifurc. Chaos 2017, 27, 1750149. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef] Poetic devices are techniques and methods writers use to construct effective poems. These poetic devices work on the levels of line-by-line syntax and rhythm, which make your poetry engaging and memorable; and they work on the deeper, thematic level, which makes your poetry matter to the reader.

Firstly, there is no such thing as a poetic form that is specifically about beauty. Any type of poem can be about beauty. The above list shows that there are sonnets, odes, free verse poems, and so on that are all poems about beauty. So, this essentially means that a poem about beauty is a broad thing. A poem about beauty simply has to be any kind of poem that focuses on any kind of beauty. There are many different ways to see beauty, and so there are many different kinds of famous poems about beauty.

He tells us that he (and we can deduce that the speaker is a ‘he’ from the poem’s later references to ‘Brethren’ and ‘Kinsmen’) died for Beauty, and when he was laid in the tomb it was to find that someone else newly dead – who had died for Truth – has been placed in the neighbouring room.