Early poems such as those by Homer emphasized the sounds of words(Homer, Illiad). ... "Which is easier to memorize, a poem or a chapter in your biology text book?"... Poets during the English Renaissance of the 14th century began to construct poems referred to as sonnets. ... Wordsworth along with Emily Dickinson pioneered the free verse style of poetry, that pushed the boundaries of what the cannon considered to be poetry and laid the foundation for the artists who would emerge a century and a half later in the United States, who were referred to as the Beats. ... Then they present an ana...

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