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poetry

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po=et=ry

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun poetry has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

poetryn. [OF. poeterie. See Poet.].
  •  The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.  [1913 Webster]
    "For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language."  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  Sir P. Sidney.  [1913 Webster]
    "She taketh most delight
    In music, instruments, and poetry.
    "  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

poetry, n.
1 the art or work of a poet.
2 poems collectively.
3 a poetic or tenderly pleasing quality.
4 anything compared to poetry.

Etymology
ME f. med.L poetria f. L poeta POET, prob. after geometry

DEVIL DICTIONARY

poetry

n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.

THESAURUS

poetry

Apollo, Apollo Musagetes, Bragi, Calliope, Castilian Spring, Erato, Euterpe, Helicon, Hippocrene, Muse, Parnassus, Pierian Spring, Pierides, Polyhymnia, afflatus, creative imagination, ease, elegance, facility, fire of genius, flow, fluency, grace, gracefulness, inspiration, metrics, poesy, poetic genius, rhyme, rune, smoothness, song, the Muses, verse, versification

ROGET THESAURUS

poetry

Poetry

N poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon, Pierides, Pierian spring, versification, rhyming, making verses, prosody, orthometry, poem, epic, epic poem, epopee, epopoea, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, monody, elegy, amoebaeum, ghazal, palinode, dramatic poetry, lyric poetry, opera, posy, anthology, disjecta membra poetae song, ballad, lay, love song, drinking song, war song, sea song, lullaby, music, nursery rhymes, doggerel, Hudibrastic verse, prose run mad, macaronics, macaronic verse, leonine verse, runes, canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain, strophe, antistrophe, verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm, accentuation, dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest, hexameter, pentameter, Alexandrine, anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus, elegiacs, elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry, poet, poet laureate, laureate, bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour, trouvere, minstrel, minnesinger, meistersinger, improvisatore, versifier, sonneteer, rhymer, rhymist, rhymester, ballad monger, runer, poetaster, genus irritabile vatum, poetic, poetical, lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic, metrical, a catalectin, elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic, amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic, Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic, Pindaric, a poem round and perfect as a star, Dichtung und Wahrheit, furor poeticus, his virtues formed the magic of his song, I do but sing because I must, I learnt life from the poets, licentia vatum, mutum est pictura poema, O for a muse of fire!, sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge, the true poem is the poet's mind, Volk der Dichter und Denker, wisdom married to immortal verse.

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