(5) "Shine, Perishing Republic" by Robinson Jeffers (7) "Minstrel Man" and "Impasse" by Langston Hughes (10) "Do not stand at my grave and weep" by Mary Elizabeth Frye My top ten didactic poems of all time (the top ten poems all appear on this page): Statement poems, of Voltaire in Candide, or of so many other master Self-alleged "experts" parrot the modern mantra "Show, don't tell!" they have noĪnswer for the magnificent telling of Shakespeare in his plays and sonnets, of That the best didactic poetry remains viable in the 21st century. Or borders on, being unreadable for many readers (including me). Pilgrim's Progress may be an example of an allegorical morality tale that has become, Alexander Pope's "Essay on Criticism" may be an example of aĭidactic poem that has become unreadable for many modern readers (including me). Rudyard Kipling'sįamous didactic poem "If" may seem too much like a sermon to some readers There seems to be a modern myth that didactic poems are universally terrible,īut this page demonstrates that there are commendable didactic poems that have stood the test of time. Usually means exactly what it says, and doesn't beat around the bush. Voltaire, loose translation/interpretation by Michael
Sappho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R.
Lao Tzu, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. William Shakespeare, the concluding couplet of his To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee. When Envy breeds unkind division: there comes the ruin, there begins confusion. Many of the Bard's famous sonnets conclude with didactic (pardon the pun), they are contradicted by the fact that some of the greatest poets wrote didactic verse, While modern literary critics have more or less "written off" didactic poetry The English word "didactic"ĭerives from the Greek didaktikos ("able to teach or instruct"). The Best Didactic Poems, Epigrams and Prose WritingsĪ didactic poem is directly (and usually unapologetically) instructional or informational: it teaches orĮxplains something such as a truth, a moral, a principle or a process. Best Didactic Poems, Didactic Definitions, Didactic Examples, Didactic Epigrams, Didactic Prose The HyperTexts
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