Entertainment / Literature / Occasional Poem: A poem written or recited to commemorate a specific event such as a wedding, an anniversary, a military victory or failure, a funeral, a holiday, or other notable date. It may be light or serious. Notable examples are Milton's 'On the Late Massacre in Piedmont,' Marvell's 'Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland,' Tennyson's 'Charge of the Light Brigade' and Yeats's 'Easter 1916.' Some of Chaucer's poetry was occasional verse. He probably wrote 'The Book of the Duchess' either within a few months of the death of John of Gaunt's wife (traditionally dated as 12 September 1369), or he may possibly have written it for one of the later annual commemorative services Gaunt held to honor the anniversary of her death. Chaucer may have written 'The Parliament of Fowls' for Valentine's Day in 1380 as a light-hearted recital to mark the negotiations concerning the marriage of Richard II to Princess Anne of Bohemia.
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Occasional Noun Synonyms: intermittent, irregular, periodic, random, sporadic, infrequent, casual, incidental
Occasional Adjective Synonyms: special, particular, ceremonial, ritual
Occasional Verb Synonyms: additional, extra, spare, supplementary, incidental, auxiliary, accessory
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Poem Noun Synonyms: verse, lyric, rhyme or archaic rime, song, ode, rhapsody, jingle, ditty
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Lifestyle / Poetry / Poem: Defined by samuel johnson in his great dictionary (1755) as 'the work of a poet: a metrical composition.' MORE
Lifestyle / Poetry / Prose Poem: Continuous, non-end-stopped writing that has other traits of poetry and is, from its context, associated with poems. MORE
Entertainment / Music / Symphonic Poem: One-movement orchestral form that develops a poetic idea, suggests a scene or creates a mood, generally associated with the Romantic era. Also tone poem. MORE