poetry
nounEtymology
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.
Definitions
Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and…
Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.
- More people write poetry than read it.
A poet's literary production.
An artistic quality that appeals to or evokes the emotions, in any medium
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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Derived
antipoetry, blackout poetry, concrete poetry, cyberpoetry, dub poetry, ecopoetry, epic poetry, erasure poetry, found poetry, graveyard poetry, hyperpoetry, Instapoetry, jazzetry, jazz poetry, lyric poetry, magnetic poetry, Martian poetry, metapoetry, micropoetry, mythopoetry, nonpoetry, onomatopoetry, performance poetry, poetry in motion, poetryless, poetrylike, poetry reading, poetry slam, shape poetry, slam poetry, sound poetry, spoetry, visual poetry
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at poetry. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at poetry. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at poetry
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA