The eddic poem Grímnismál describes twelve divine dwellings beginning in stanza 5 with:

This view is presented in English poet John Keats ' poem To Autumn, where he describes the season as a time of bounteous fecundity, a time of ' mellow fruitfulness '.

It has also been argued that this is the third part of the poem since it describes the settings during the time lapse before the final battle between Beowulf and the Dragon.

The poet also describes the horror of death in battle, a theme continued from the second part of the poem, through the Last Survivor ’ s eyes.

Later in the work, when Snorri describes Baldr, he gives a longer description, citing Grímnismál, though he does not name the poem:

A passage in the Poetic Edda poem Sigrdrífumál describes runes being graven on the sun, on the ear of one of the sun-horses and on the hoofs of the other, on Sleipnir's teeth, on bear's paw, on eagle's beak, on wolf's claw, and on several other things including on Bragi's tongue.

In the body of the poem, Odin describes at great length the cosmogony of the worlds, the dwelling places of its inhabitants, and talks about himself and his many guises.

A poem from the 9th century Ynglingatal that forms the basis of Ynglinga saga is then quoted that describes Hel's taking of Dyggvi:

Pattinapalai, a Tamil poem of the 2nd century CE, describes goods from Kedaram heaped in the broad streets of the Chola capital.

* Pablo Neruda's poem I Explain a Few Things describes Francisco Franco and his allies as "... Jackals that the jackal would drive off ...".

The first stanza of the poem describes Khan's pleasure dome built alongside a sacred river fed by a powerful fountain.

The poem expands on the gothic hints of the first stanza as the narrator explores the dark chasm in the midst of Xanadu's gardens, and describes the surrounding area as both " savage " and " holy ".

The woman herself is similar to the way Coleridge describes Lewti in another poem he wrote around the same time Lewti.

He continued by discussing the preface: " despite its obvious undependability as a guide to the actual process of the poem's composition, the preface can still, in Wheeler's words, lead us ' to ponder why Coleridge chose to write a preface ... ' What the preface describes, of course, is not the actual process by which the poem came into being, but an analogue of poetic creation as logos, a divine ' decree ' or fiat which transforms the Word into the world.

" Adam Sisman, in 2006, questioned the nature of the poem itself: " No one even knows whether it is complete ; Coleridge describes it as a ' fragment ,' but there is a case for doubting this.

Rich with allusions to Christian teaching, the poem describes a mother drowning her illegitimate infant and its being netted by fishermen.

In the poem, Fjölsviðr describes to the hero Svipdagr that Sinmara keeps the weapon Lævateinn within a chest, locked with nine strong locks ( due to significant translation differences, two translations of the stanza are provided here ):

The term " elegy ," which originally denoted a type of poetic meter ( elegiac meter ), commonly describes a poem of mourning.

He expressed these beliefs in his poem Mythopoeia circa 1931, which describes myth-making as an act of " sub-creation " within God's primary creation.

A poem discovered in October 2010, Last letter, describes what happened during the three days leading up to Plath's suicide.

The rediscovered section describes Alice's encounter with a wasp wearing a yellow wig, and includes a full previously unpublished poem.

His first known works were written when he was seventeen, and included a poem — heavily influenced by Percy Bysshe Shelley — that describes a magician who set up a throne in central Asia.

The Poetic Edda poem Hávamál describes how Odin sacrificed himself by hanging from a tree, making this tree Odin's gallows.

In stanza 137 of the poem Hávamál, Odin describes how he once sacrificed himself to himself by hanging on a tree.

Eliot's poem " Lune de Miel " ( written in French ) describes a honeymooning couple from Indiana sleeping not far from the ancient Basilica of Sant ' Apollinare in Classe, ( just outside Ravenna ), famous for the carved capitals of its columns, which depict acanthus leaves buffeted by the wind, unlike the leaves in repose on similar columns elsewhere.

Books 2 – 6 of the Itinerarium Regis Ricardi, a Latin prose narrative of the same events apparently compiled by Richard, a canon of Holy Trinity, London, are closely related to Ambroise's poem.

The events described in the poem take place in the late 5th century, after the Anglo-Saxons had begun their migration to England, and before the beginning of the 7th century, a time when the Anglo-Saxon people were either newly arrived or still in close contact with their Germanic kinsmen in Scandinavia and Northern Germany.

The poem deals with legends, was composed for entertainment, and does not separate between fictional elements and real historic events, such as the raid by King Hygelac into Frisia.

The dating of the events in the poem has been confirmed by archaeological excavations of the barrows indicated by Snorri Sturluson and by Swedish tradition as the graves of Ohthere ( dated to c. 530 ) and his son Eadgils ( dated to c. 575 ) in Uppland, Sweden.

It is an epic poem told in historical perspective ; a story of epic events and of great people of a heroic past.

Irish poet Thomas Kinsella's 1972 poem Butcher's Dozen is a satirical and angry response to the Widgery Tribunal and the events of Bloody Sunday.

An epic ( from the Ancient Greek adjective ( epikos ), from ( epos ) " word, story, poem ") is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.

A few months after the Easter Rising, W. B. Yeats commemorated some of the fallen figures of the Irish Republican movement, as well as expressed his torn emotions regarding these events, in the poem Easter, 1916.

Virgil published his pastoral Eclogues ; the Georgics, perhaps the most beautiful poem ever written about country life ; and the Aeneid, an epic poem describing the events that led to the creation of Rome.

The poem has some aspects characteristic of much of Carroll's poetry: it utilizes technically adept meter and rhyme, grammatically correct phrasing, logical chains of events — and largely nonsensical content, frequently employing made-up words such as " Snark ".

* Evangeline ( 1847 ), an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow loosely based on the events surrounding the 1755 deportation.

Tintagel is used as a locus for the Arthurian mythos by the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson in the poem Idylls of the King and Algernon Charles Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse is one of the versions of the Tristan and Iseult legends where some of the events are set at Tintagel.

Strauss went on to conduct one of Ritter's operas, and at Strauss's request Ritter later wrote a poem describing the events depicted in Strauss's tone poem Death and Transfiguration.

The poem continues, and, among various other events, Helgi dies from a wound received in battle.

The Telegony was a short 2-book epic poem recounting the life and death of Odysseus after the events of the Odyssey.

The collection opens with James Elroy Flecker's poem " The Bridge of Fire ," which acts as a prologue and description of the events that occur.

His son Muirgen came to Fergus ' grave and spoke a poem, and Fergus ' ghost appeared to him and related the events of the Táin as they happened.

In the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá, Gullinkambi is one of the three roosters whose crowing is foretold to signify the beginning of the events of Ragnarök.

The poem frames various events of the 1960s and 1970s, including the Kennedy assassination and the Kent State massacre, as part of a larger trend.

The events described probably occurred around 1200 BC, but Homer is thought to have composed this epic poem around 700 BC ; so exactitude must remain suspect.

Nagarakertagama, is an old Javanese epic poem written during the Majapahit golden age under the reign of Hayam Wuruk after which some events are covered narratively.

His poem A Wife, which depicted the virtues that a young man should demand of a woman, played a large role in the events that precipitated his murder.