Hyperbole is a figure of speech in which statements are exaggerated or extravagant. Hyperbole is a type of figurative language that depends on intentional overstatement.
Examples of Hyperbole in Poems & Poetry
Poems with Hyperbole examples can be found by the most famous poets including Sandburg, Shakespeare and Emerson.
“There did not seem to be brains enough in the entire nursery, so to speak, to bait a fishhook with.” by Mark Twain from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast;
But thirty thousand to the rest...
from To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No. This my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red." from Act 2, scene 2 of "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare
"Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world" by Ralph Waldo Emerson from "The Concord Hymn"
"Go and Catch a Falling Star" by John Donne
