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Descriptive poetry, unlike narrative poetry, is known not necessarily for telling a story but for its deep depiction of a person, animal or inanimate object. The feelings the poet has about this object are secondary to the description of the subject, so they don't get in the way of the visual imagery. Peruse an assorted array of descriptive poem examples.

When you think of massively popular celebrities, you probably don’t think of Charles Dickens. But he was a literary rock star who enjoyed an unusual amount of popularity during his lifetime by appealing to a mass readership with unique turns-of-phrase and British slang words. His work was so popular that these words (many of which he invented) made their way from slang into proper English vocabulary, and even into our modern speech and writing.