Hyperbole is the use of over-exaggeration to create emphasis or humor. It’s not intended to be taken literally. Rather, it’s supposed to drive a point home and make the reader understand just how much the writer felt in that moment.

Throughout the ages, hyperbole has appeared in poetry time and time again. If you can’t be dramatic in poetry, where can you? Hyperbole helps express ever-lasting love, a broken heart, or feelings of despair in an amplified tone.

So, without further ado, let's take a look at some effervescent examples of hyperbole in poems and watch these famous masters turn up the heat on any given emotion.

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