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Apostrophe Poems
This page provides examples of Apostrophe poems. The poems and poetry
selected are by famous poets who have used Apostrophe as a poetic or
literary device to convey, emphasize and create vivid images.
Poets use this type of device as an unusual alternative to every
day speech to help them express mood and emotion. For additional
information about Apostrophe please click the following link:
Apostrophe
Examples of Apostrophe
Poems
Our examples of Apostrophe
poems
and poetry have been selected from the work of some of the the most famous
American and English poets.
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'Milton' by
William Wordsworth
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Julius
Caesar and King Lear by William Shakespeare
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"Ode on a
Grecian Urn" by John Keats
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"Childe
Harold's Pilgrimage" by Lord Byron
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O Captain!
My Captain! by Walt Whitman
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"The Sun
Rising" by John Donne
Extracts from poems
& poetry illustrating Apostrophe
The following
extracts are examples from Apostrophe poems and poetry:
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"Milton!
thou shouldst be living at this hour" from the sonnet
sonnet 'Milton' by William Wordsworth
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"O, pardon
me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and
gentle with these butchers! / Thou art the ruins of the
noblest man / That ever lived in the tide of times."
from Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1. by William
Shakespeare
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"For Brutus,
as you know, was Caesar's angel. Judge, O you gods, how
dearly Caesar loved him." from Julius Caesar by William
Shakespeare
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"To what
green altar, O mysterious priest, / Lead'st thou that
heifer lowing at the skies, / And all her silken flanks
with garlands drest?" from "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by
John Keats
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"Roll on
thou dark and deep blue ocean." from "Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage" by Lord Byron
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O Captain!
My Captain!, title of the famous poem by Walt Whitman
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"Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend, / More hideous
when thou show'st thee in a child / Than the
sea-monster." from King Lear by William Shakespeare
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Busy old
fool, unruly sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through
windows, and through curtains call on us? from "The Sun
Rising"
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"Oh, Death,
be not proud." by John Donne
Examples Help! Use
of Examples of Apostrophe Poems in Poems & Poetry
The Apostrophe poem, poems or poetry convey and emphasize unusual
and vivid images. The use of strong word association changes the
mode of thought and adds variation, embellishment and adornment
to poetic and literary works. |
