Please Help Write your own lyric poem of at least two quatrains (eight lines total). Use common meter, alternating iambic tetrameter, and trimeter (8/6/8/6 syllables). Remember that a lyric poem expresses thoughts and feelings, and is usually written in first person.
Like Dickinson, consider using imagery from your everyday life to express a universal question or idea, such as the power of nature or the need for rest.

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man