poetry

[Po·et*ry]

Poetry is a form of literature that follows specific forms to create a rhythm and or rhyme scheme. Without those elements we have the poetic form known as “free verse,” but it retains an elevated language that still makes it poetry.

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The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.

Noun
literature in metrical form

Noun
any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling


n.
The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.

n.
Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry.


Poetry

Po"et*ry , n. [OF. poeterie. See Poet.] 1. The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.
For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
2. Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry. "The planetlike music of poetry." Sir P. Sidney.
She taketh most delight In music, instruments, and poetry.

The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.

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Usage Examples

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

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Other Usage Examples

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.

A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

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