3 Best Hyperbole Poems

Poems with hyperbole use exaggerated language to emphasize feelings or concepts, often creating a dramatic or humorous effect. This literary device helps amplify emotions like love, fear, or frustration, making the subject more impactful. Hyperbole adds intensity to the poem’s tone, drawing attention to specific elements or ideas.

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To His Coy Mistress

by Andrew Marvell

‘To His Coy Mistress’ urges seizing love now, using witty metaphors to highlight the fleeting nature of time and beauty.

The speaker uses exaggerated comparisons to make his feelings stronger. He says he would love her “ten years before the Flood” and praise her for “thirty thousand years.” These examples are not meant to be taken literally but show how deep and endless his affection feels. This use of over-the-top language adds drama and charm to the poem. It also reflects how people sometimes use grand words to show just how much they care or want something.

Had we but world enough, and time,

This coyness, Lady, were no crime

We would sit down and think which way

To walk and pass our long love's day.

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Love in Bloom

by Abu Nuwas

‘Love in Bloom’ features a man admiring his beloved, characterising him as divine. However, undertones of secrecy lead to frustration.

Hyperbole gives this poem its power. “I die of love” opens the piece and repeats again later. The exaggeration is not for comedic effect, but as a serious register of feeling. The speaker says the beloved is perfect in every way, which goes overboard, as qualifiers go. The metaphors are extravagant: beauty pours off a cheek, the beloved is called an angel, the speaker is overcome and lost. These are not tempered emotions. The poetic mode here is intense.

I die of love for him, perfect in every way,

Lost in the strains of wafting music.

My eyes are fixed upon his delightful body

And I do not wonder at his beauty.

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The Tragedy

by Henry Lawson

‘The Tragedy’ by Henry Lawson is a humorous poem written as an advertisement, recounting the tale of a man whose prized cough medicine was stolen.

The poet uses hyperbole throughout the poem when they express just how angry they are with the betrayal that they have experienced. This is a way for them to demonstrate just how much the medicine means to them.

Oh, I never felt so wretched, and things never looked so blue,

Since the days I gulped the physic that my Granny used to brew;

For a friend in whom I trusted, entering my room last night,

Stole a bottleful of Heenzo from the desk whereon I write.

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To His Coy Mistress

by Andrew Marvell

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The Tragedy

by Henry Lawson

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