poetry
IPA: pˈoʊʌtri
noun
- Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.
- A poet's literary production.
- (figurative) An artistic quality that appeals to or evokes the emotions, in any medium; something having such a quality.
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Examples of "poetry" in Sentences
- He had no idea that poetry -- _poetry_ -- rhymed "annuities" with "true it is" and "Jew it is."
- Although I remember fondly a poetry book someone made for me with his own Mad poetry that was a way kewl present!!
- From this perspective, the lyrical topos of nightlife in poetry is the primary form of that which takes place, secondarily, in the world.
- But waiving this, of which it was not my intention to speak, let me remark, that the reason why poetry will no longer go down with the public, _as poetry_, is, that the whole frame-work is worn out.
- I have written before that any history of poetry is inevitably a history of change in poetry, and that an inevitable consequence is that the well-wrought urn is almost invariably a trivial accomplishment.
- These are not stark and stiffened persons, but the new-born poetry of God, poetry without stop, hymn, ode and epic, poetry still flowing and not yet caked in dead books with annotation and grammar, but Apollo and the Muses chanting still.
- As the unprejudiced reader sees [Dr Gummere proceeds] this clear and admirable account confirms the doctrine of early days revived with fresh ethnological evidence in the writings of Dr Brown and of Adam Smith, that dance, poetry and song were once a single and inseparable function, and is in itself fatal to the idea of rhythmic prose, of solitary recitation, as foundations of poetry .
- I have never been able to figure out what "SF poetry" is, what it's supposed to do, how it is different from other types of poetry**, so I can't join him in that argument, but I do think that the poetry that gets called SF Poetry ought to have a larger horizon, because by the standards of literature outside of the SF world, SF poetry makes most speculative fiction look daring and formally innovative.
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