po·et·ry (p   -tr )n. 1. The art or work of a poet. 2. a. Poems regarded as forming a division of literature. b. The poetic works of a given author, group, nation, or kind. 3. A piece of literature written in meter; verse. 4. Prose that resembles a poem in some respect, as in form or sound. 5. The essence or characteristic quality of a poem. 6. A quality that suggests poetry, as in grace, beauty, or harmony: the poetry of the dancer's movements. [Middle English poetrie, from Old French, from Medieval Latin po tria, from Latin pota, poet; see poet.] |
poetry [ˈpəʊɪtrɪ]
n
1. (Literature / Poetry) literature in metrical form; verse
2. (Literature / Poetry) the art or craft of writing verse
3. poetic qualities, spirit, or feeling in anything
4. anything resembling poetry in rhythm, beauty, etc.
[from Medieval Latin poētria, from Latin poēta poet]
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  poetry - literature in metrical form epos - a body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme epic poetry, heroic poetry - poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero Erin - an early name of Ireland that is now used in poetry lyric - write lyrics for (a song) relyric - write new lyrics for (a song) tag - supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes alliterate - use alliteration as a form of poetry poetise, poetize, verse, versify - compose verses or put into verse; "He versified the ancient saga" metrify - compose in poetic meter; "The bard metrified his poems very precisely" sonnet - compose a sonnet sonnet - praise in a sonnet scan - conform to a metrical pattern lyric - of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way); "lyric poetry" |
| 2. | poetry - any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling expressive style, style - a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper" |
poetry
noun verse, poems, rhyme, rhyming, poesy (archaic), verse composition, metrical composition the poetry of Thomas Hardy
Quotations
"Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense" [Isaac Barrow]
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation" [Robert Frost]
"Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen" [Fleur Adcock]
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity" [William Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads (preface)]
"Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life" [Matthew Arnold Essays in Criticism]
"Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry" [Gustave Flaubert letter]
"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat" [Robert Frost]
"As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines" [Lord Macaulay Essays]
"Poetry (is) a speaking picture, with this end; to teach and delight" [Sir Philip Sidney The Defence of Poetry]
"Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes" [Joseph Roux Meditations of a Parish Priest]
"Prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in their best order" [Samuel Taylor Coleridge Table Talk]
"Imaginary gardens with real toads in them" [Marianne Moore Poetry]
"Poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history" [Aristotle Poetics]
"Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it" [Jeremy Bentham]
"I am two fools, I know,"
"For loving, and for saying so"
"In whining poetry" [John Donne The Triple Fool]
"Poetry's a mere drug, Sir" [George Farquhar Love and a Battle]
"If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all" [John Keats letter]
"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo" [Don Marquis]
"Most people ignore most poetry"
"because"
"most poetry ignores most people" [Adrian Mitchell Poems]
"All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose" [Molière Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme]
"it is not poetry, but prose run mad" [Alexander Pope An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot]
"Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense" [Isaac Barrow]
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation" [Robert Frost]
"Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen" [Fleur Adcock]
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity" [William Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads (preface)]
"Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life" [Matthew Arnold Essays in Criticism]
"Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry" [Gustave Flaubert letter]
"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat" [Robert Frost]
"As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines" [Lord Macaulay Essays]
"Poetry (is) a speaking picture, with this end; to teach and delight" [Sir Philip Sidney The Defence of Poetry]
"Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes" [Joseph Roux Meditations of a Parish Priest]
"Prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in their best order" [Samuel Taylor Coleridge Table Talk]
"Imaginary gardens with real toads in them" [Marianne Moore Poetry]
"Poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history" [Aristotle Poetics]
"Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it" [Jeremy Bentham]
"I am two fools, I know,"
"For loving, and for saying so"
"In whining poetry" [John Donne The Triple Fool]
"Poetry's a mere drug, Sir" [George Farquhar Love and a Battle]
"If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all" [John Keats letter]
"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo" [Don Marquis]
"Most people ignore most poetry"
"because"
"most poetry ignores most people" [Adrian Mitchell Poems]
"All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose" [Molière Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme]
"it is not poetry, but prose run mad" [Alexander Pope An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot]
Poetry
Poetry and prosody terms accentual metre, accentual-syllabic metre or stress-syllabic metre, Adonic, Alcaic, Alexandrine, alliteration, amoebaean or amoebean, amphibrach, amphimacer, anacrusis, arsis, anapaest or anapest, anapaestic or anapestic, antistrophe, assonance, bacchius, ballad stanza, blank verse, bob, cadence or cadency, caesura or cesura, canto, catalectic, choriamb or choriambus, closed couplet, common measure, common metre, consonance or consonancy, couplet, cretic or amphimacer, dactyl, dactylic, diaeresis or dieresis, dipody, distich, elision, end-stopped, enjambement, envoy or envoi, epode, eye rhyme, feminine ending, feminine rhyme, foot, free verse or vers libre, half-rhyme, hemistich, heptameter, heptastich, heroic couplet, hexameter, hypermeter, iamb or iambus, iambic, ictus, internal rhyme, ionic, jabberwocky, leonine rhyme, long metre, macaronic, masculine ending, masculine rhyme, metre, octameter, octave or octet, onomatopoeia, ottava rima, paeon, paeonic, pararhyme, pentameter, pentastich, perfect rhyme or full rhyme, Pindaric, pyhrric, quantitative metre, quatrain, quintain or quintet, refrain, rhyme, rhyme royal, rhyme scheme, rhythm, rime riche, Sapphic, scansion, septet, sestet, sestina or sextain, short metre, Spenserian stanza, spondee, spondaic, sprung rhythm, stanza, stichic, strophe, syllabic metre, tercet, terza rima, tetrabrach, tetrameter, tetrapody, tetrastich, triplet, trochaic, trochee, unstopped, verse paragraph, wheel
Poetry movements and groupings Alexandrians, Decadents, Georgian Poets, imagists, Lake Poets, Liverpool Poets, Metaphysical Poets, the Movement, Petrarchans, Romantics, Scottish Chaucerians, symbolists
Poets Dannie Abse (Welsh), (Karen) Fleur Adcock (New Zealander), Conrad (Potter) Aiken (U.S.), Anna Akhamatova (Russian), Maya Angelou (U.S.), Guillaume Apollinaire (French), Ludovico Ariosto (Italian), Matthew Arnold (English), W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden (English-U.S.), Charles Pierre Baudelaire (French), Patricia Beer (English), Hilaire Belloc (British), John Berryman (U.S.), John Betjeman (English), Elizabeth Bishop (U.S.), William Blake (English), Edmund Blunden (English), Joseph Brodsky (Russian-American), Rupert (Chawner) Brooke (English), Gwendolyn Brooks (U.S.), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (English), Robert Browning (English), Robert Burns (Scottish), (George Gordon) Byron (British), Callimachus (Greek), Luis Vaz de Camoëns (Portuguese), Thomas Campion (English), Raymond Carver (U.S.), Gaius Valerius Catullus (Roman), Charles Causley (English), Geoffrey Chaucer (English), Amy Clampitt (U.S.), John Clare (English), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (English), William Cowper (English), George Crabbe (English), e(dward) e(stlin) cummings (U.S.), Dante (Alighieri) (Italian), Cecil Day Lewis (Irish), Walter de la Mare (English), Emily Dickinson (U.S.), John Donne (English), H D (Hilda Doolittle) (U.S.), John Dryden (English), Carol Ann Duffy (Scottish), William Dunbar (Scottish), Douglas Dunn (Scottish), Geoffrey Dutton (Australian), T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot (U.S.-British), Ebenezer Elliot (the Corn Law Rhymer) (English), Paul Éluard (French), Ralph Waldo Emerson (U.S.), William Empson (English), Edward Fitzgerald (English), Robert Fitzgerald (Australian), Robert (Lee) Frost (U.S.), Allen Ginsberg (U.S.), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German), Robert Graves (English), Thomas Gray (English), Thom Gunn (English), Seamus Heaney (Irish), Adrian Henri (English), Robert Henryson (Scottish), George Herbert (English), Robert Herrick (English), Hesiod (Greek), Geoffrey Hill (English), Ralph Hodgson (English), Homer (Greek), Thomas Hood (English), Gerard Manley Hopkins (English), Horace (Roman), A(lfred) E(dward) Housman (English), Ted Hughes (English), Elizabeth Jennings (English), Samuel Johnson (English), Ben Jonson (English), Juvenal (Roman), Patrick Kavanagh (Irish), John Keats (English), Sidney Keyes (English), (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling (English), Jean de La Fontaine (French), Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine (French), Walter Savage Landor (English), William Langland (English), Philip Larkin (English), Tom Leonard (Scottish), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (U.S.), Amy Lowell (U.S.), Robert Lowell (U.S.), Richard Lovelace (English), Lucretius (Roman), Thomas Macauley (English), Norman MacCaig (Scottish), Hugh MacDiarmid (Scottish), Roger McGough (English), Sorley MacLean (Scottish), Louis MacNeice (Irish), Stéphane Mallarmé (French), Martial (Roman), Andrew Marvell (English), John Masefield (English), Edna St Vincent Millay (U.S.), John Milton (English), Marianne Moore (U.S.), Edwin Morgan (Scottish), Andrew Motion (English), Edwin Muir (Scottish), Ogden Nash (U.S.), Pablo Neruda (Chilean), Frank O'Hara (U.S.), Omar Khayyam (Persian), Ovid (Roman), Wilfred Owen (British), Brian Patten (English), Octavio Paz (Mexican), Petrarch (Italian), Pindar (Greek), Sylvia Plath (U.S.), Alexander Pope (English), Peter Porter (Australian), Ezra (Loomis) Pound (U.S.), Sextus Propertius (Roman), Aleksander Sergeyevich Pushkin (Russian), Kathleen Raine (English), Adrienne Rich (U.S.), Laura Riding (U.S.), Rainer Maria Rilke (Austro-German), Arthur Rimbaud (French), (John Wilmot) Rochester (English), Theodore Huebner Roethke (U.S.), Isaac Rosenberg (English), Christina Georgina Rossetti (English), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English), Saint-John Perse (French), Sappho (Greek), Siegfried Sassoon (English), Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (German), Delmore Schwarz (U.S.), Sir Walter Scott (Scottish), Jaroslav Seifert (Czech), William Shakespeare (English), Percy Bysshe Shelley (English), Sir Philip Sidney (English), Edith Sitwell (English), John Skelton (English), Christopher Smart (English), Stevie Smith (English), Robert Southey (English), Stephen Spender (English), Edmund Spenser (English), Wallace Stevens (U.S.), Algernon Charles Swinburne (English), Wislawa Szymborska (Polish), Torquato Tasso (Italian), Alfred, Lord Tennyson (English), Dylan (Marlais) Thomas (Welsh), Edward Thomas (English), R(onald) S(tuart) Thomas (Welsh), James Thomson (Scottish), Paul Verlaine (French), Alfred Victor de Vigny (French), François Villon (French), Virgil (Roman), Derek Walcott (West Indian), Francis Charles Webb (Australian), Walt Whitman (U.S.), William Wordsworth (English), Judith Wright (Australian), Thomas Wyatt (English), W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats (Irish)
Translations
poetry [ˈpəʊɪtrɪ]
poetry
n
→ Dichtung f; (not epic also) → Lyrik f; to write poetry → Gedichte schreiben, dichten; the rules of poetry → die Regeln der Versdichtung; poetry reading → Dichterlesung f
(fig) → Poesie f; the dancing was poetry in motion → der Tanz war in Bewegung umgesetzte Poesie; the sunset was sheer poetry → der Sonnenuntergang war reinste Poesie
poetry [ˈpəʊɪtrɪ] n → poesia
to write poetry → scrivere (delle) poesie
poetry [ˈpəʊɪtrɪ] n → poesia
to write poetry → scrivere (delle) poesie
to write poetry → scrivere (delle) poesie
poetry [ˈpəʊɪtrɪ] n → poesia
to write poetry → scrivere (delle) poesie
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