Example sentences for: poem

How can you use “poem” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The paper also quoted the Irish Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney welcoming the agreement with a quotation from the epic Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf": "A light appeared and the whole place became brightened the way the sky does when heaven's candle is shining brightly."

  • The way the first half of the poem ends with the word "I" also makes me feel a recognition that the fervorless or haunted or corpselike quality of the landscape--like the bird's putative "hope" later--is something that the subjective observer at least half creates.

  • We take this opportunity to inform our readers that they are under no obligation to read the music or movie reviews, or to follow the gardening column, or to listen to the poem, in order to consume the news and political analysis.

  • Literary party games held in ornate palace gardens required each guest to compose a small poem as his wine cup floated toward him along a miniature winding channel of water.

  • Among the subjects he touches on in his poem are street crime, unemployment, the degradation of the welfare system, tacky urban renewal projects, overcrowding, high rents and unscrupulous landlords, noise, vehicular traffic, congestion, even problems of immigration and integration.


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