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Poetry
//ˈpəʊɪtɹi// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm. uncountable, usually
"More people write poetry than read it."
- 2 literature in metrical form wordnet
- 3 A poet's literary production. uncountable, usually
- 4 any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling wordnet
- 5 An artistic quality that appeals to or evokes the emotions, in any medium; something having such a quality. figuratively, uncountable, usually
"That 'Swan Lake' choreography is poetry in motion, fitting the musical poetry of Tchaikovski's divine score well beyond the literary inspiration."
Etymology
From Middle English poetrye, poetrie, a borrowing from Old French pöeterie, pöetrie, from Medieval Latin poētria, from poēta (“poet”), from Ancient Greek ποιητής (poiētḗs, “poet; author; maker”). Displaced native Old English lēoþcræft.
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