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\u201cPoetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful,\u201d said Rita Dove, though we\u2019d like to argue that it could be distilled even further, into Emojis. Yes, it\u2019s time for another round of our translations of celebrated poems into pictograms.\u00a0Can you guess the following famous verses? The first ten people to name all three poems correctly will win a copy of our\u00a0Summer issue (no. 221)\u2014you can submit\u00a0your answers here<\/a>. We\u2019ve included the answers to the\u00a0first round<\/a>\u00a0below.<\/p>\n

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Answers to\u00a0our last Emoji poetry contest<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1. \u201cThe Tyger\u201d by William Blake<\/p>\n

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
\nIn the forests of the night;
\nWhat immortal hand or eye,
\nCould frame thy fearful symmetry?<\/p>\n

2. \u201cO Captain! My Captain!\u201d by Walt Whitman<\/p>\n

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
\nThe ship has weather\u2019d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
\nThe port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
\nWhile follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
\nBut O heart! heart! heart!
\nO the bleeding drops of red,
\nWhere on the deck my Captain lies,
\nFallen cold and dead.<\/p>\n

3. \u201cThis Be the Verse\u201d by Philip Larkin<\/p>\n

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
\nThey may not mean to, but they do.
\nThey fill you with the faults they had
\nAnd add some extra, just for you.<\/p>\n

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Nadja Spiegelman is the author of<\/em> I\u2019m Supposed To Protect You from All This, and coeditor of<\/em> Resist!, a feminist publication of comics and graphics.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rosa Rankin-Gee is the author of<\/em> The Last Kings of Sark. She is finishing\u00a0her second novel,<\/em> Dreamland.<\/p>\n

*Poem #1 was created by\u00a0Zai Divecha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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