What are some examples of poetry?

What are some examples of poetry?

There are many forms of poetry! For example, haikus, sonnets, and free verse are popular types. Would you like to hear examples of each?

Yes, please provide an example of a haiku.

Sure! Here's a classic haiku by Matsuo Bashō:

An old silent pond... A frog jumps into the pond— Splash! Silence again.

That's beautiful! What about a sonnet?

Here's a famous sonnet by William Shakespeare:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... (It's Sonnet 18, if you'd like to read the rest!)

I would love to read the rest! Can you share it?

Of course! Here’s the full text of Sonnet 18:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.