poetry
UK /ˈpəʊ.ɪ.tɹi/ · US /ˈpoʊ.ə.tɹi/ noun
Forms poetries
- noun Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.
- noun A poet's literary production.
- noun (figurative) An artistic quality that appeals to or evokes the emotions, in any medium; something having such a quality. “That 'Swan Lake' choreography is poetry in motion, fitting the musical poetry of Tchaikovski's divine score well beyond the literary inspiration.”
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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.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.
- noun 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.
Etymology [OF. poeterie. See Poet.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “poetry”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details