About The Word Poetry
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Poetry
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What's The Definition Of Poetry?
[n] literature in metrical form
[n] any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling Synonyms | Synonyms for Poetry: poesy | verse Related Terms | Find terms related to Poetry: afflatus | Apollo | Apollo Musagetes | Bragi | Calliope | Castilian Spring | creative imagination | ease | elegance | Erato | Euterpe | facility | fire of genius | flow | fluency | grace | gracefulness | Helicon | Hippocrene | inspiration | metrics | Muse | Parnassus | Pierian Spring | Pierides | poesy | poetic genius | Polyhymnia | rhyme | rune | smoothness | song | the Muses | verse | versification See Also | epos | expressive style | genre | literary genre | style | writing style Poetry In Webster's Dictionary \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. --Coleridge.
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. --Shak.
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