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I wonder where this came from
==Traditional/Modern nomenclature==
==Traditional/Modern nomenclature==
Doesn't seem correct. Is Shakespeare's blank verse considered "modern?" Come to think of it, does [[Beowulf]] rhyme? I don't think so. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 14:16, 9 April 2007 (EDT)
Doesn't seem correct. Is Shakespeare's blank verse considered "modern?" Come to think of it, does [[Beowulf]] rhyme? I don't think so. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith]] 14:16, 9 April 2007 (EDT)
==Unsourced addition==
Regardless of whether it is traditional or modern poetry, the subject of a poem can be anything. It could be about something as intense as [[suicide]], or as mundane as watching [[television]]. Since there are so many poems written about the important parts of life that affect all [[human]s ([[marriage]], [[death]], [[love]], and the natural world), there are names for poems with these subjects. Clearly, not all poems fit into these categories.
* ''epithalamium'' - a poem that celebrates a [[wedding]]
* ''elegy'' - a poem that remembers the [[dead]]
* ''pastoral'' - a poem describing the joys or sorrows of living close to [[nature]] and away from the city
* ''[[love]]'' - a poem filled with expressions of joy, despair, passion, romance, spirituality, religion or unrequited love.