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Poetry

Poetry Meaning & Definition
Poetry Definition And Meaning

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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