Poetry ( from the Greek poiesis — — with a broad meaning of a " making ", seen also in such terms as " hemopoiesis "; more narrowly, the making of poetry ) is a form of literary art which uses the aesthetic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

Poetry as an art form may predate literacy.

Poetry and literature profited from the rising popularity and development of the ci poetry form.

Simek says that Snorri ’ s description is further proven faithful by way of the ( above mentioned ) 10th century skaldic kenning “ Kvasir ’ s blood ” ( Old Norse Kvasis dreya ), and that strong parallels exist between the Old Norse tale of the theft of the Mead of Poetry by Odin ( in the form of an eagle ) and the Sanskrit tale of the theft of Soma — beverage of the gods — by the god Indra ( or an eagle ), and that these parallels point to a common Proto-Indo-European basis.

Poetry has been part of New Zealand culture since before European settlement in the form of Māori sung poems or waiata.

Poetry analysis is the process of investigating a poem's form, content, and history in an informed way, with the aim of heightening one's own and others ' understanding and appreciation of the work.

Venues like Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City and mass media formats, like Gorski's and John Giorno's, form the two lines of influence leading to Def Poetry on HBO.

Burns explicitly addresses the Pastoral form in his Poem on Pastoral Poetry.

Unlike the Adi Kaal ( also called the Vir Gatha Kaal ) which was characterized by an overdose of Poetry in the Vir Rasa ( Heroic Poetry ), the Bhakti Yug marked a much more diverse and vibrant form of poetry which spanned the whole gamut of rasas from Shringara rasa ( love ), Vir Rasa ( Heroism ).

These were published in book form along with other examples of Morton's American poetry in " New English Canaan " ( 1637 ); and based on the criteria of " First ," " American " and Poetry ," they make Morton ( and not Anne Bradstreet ) America's first poet in English.

Poetry is the most dominant form of literature in modern Turkey.

The Muse of Comedy assembles Poetry, Music, and Dance to form Opéra Comique

Poetry, perhaps more than any other literary form, usually expressed words or phrases that were not current in ordinary conversation, characterized as poetic diction.

Other works by Levi Asher include Queensboro Ballads, a series of stories and essays in the form of a 1960s folk-rock album, Coffeehouse: Writings From The Web, the first anthology of online writing, Notes From Underground, a digital movie version of the Dostoevsky novel, Action Poetry, a compilation of writings from Literary Kicks, and The Summer of the Mets, a novel.

Poetry groups, like the PinoyPoets, have been promoting Filipino poetry in English ; the vernacular are also advocating the spread of this art form.

In modern times, shi can and has been used as an umbrella term to mean poetry in any form or language, whether or not Chinese ; but, it may imply or be used to refer certain classical forms of poetry, for example the folk song derived poetry of the Classic of Poetry ( Shijing, 詩經 / 诗经 ), the classic reference of shi.

The telling of urban legends may be considered an example of oral literature, as can jokes and also oral poetry including slam poetry which has been a televised feature on Russell Simmons ' Def Poetry ; performance poetry is a genre of poetry that consciously shuns the written form

Parrott, ed., How to Be Well-Versed in Poetry, London: Viking, 1990, pp. 197-200 ; and the verse form was also described in Anne H. Soukhanov, Word Watch-The Stories Behind the Words of Our Lives, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995, pp. 388-89.

The form was first described by Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni in his work L ' Istoria della volgar poesia ( History of Folk Poetry ), published in Venice, 1731 and later by P. G.

Poetry was Alvarez's first form of creative writing and she explains that her love for poetry has to do with the fact that " a poem is very intimate, heart-to-heart ".

Action Poetry is a form of poetry that is fierce, unpredictable, and full of energy.

Petry Slam is another form of Action Poetry in which a competition is held where competitors would read or recite original works, while being judged by selected members of an audience.

Competitors in Prose & Poetry ( short form: P-P ) read an unmemorized cut of prose or poetry, which is typically read from a small black binder.

Griselda Pollock and other femininsts have articulated Myth and Poetry and literature, from the point of view of gender.

Daniela Gioseffi with Alfredo De Palchi founded The Annual $ 2000 Bordighera Poetry Prize to further the names of Italian American Poets in American literature.

The faculty at the University of Leipzig refused Gesner teaching privileges, however, and on the foundation of the University of Göttingen he became Professor of Poetry and Eloquence ( 1734 ) and subsequently librarian, continuing to publish works on classical languages and literature as well composing Latin poetry and publicizing the university.

From 1807 to 1814 Orelli worked as preacher in the reformed community of Bergamo, where he acquired the taste for Italian literature which led to the publication of Contributions to the History of Italian Poetry ( 1810 ) and a biography ( 1812 ) of Vittorino da Feltre, his ideal of a teacher.

She furthered her education with a Master of Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a PhD in 19th century British literature from the University of Wisconsin at Madison ( her dissertation was entitled " Matthew Arnold's Possible Perfection: A Study of the Kantian Strain in Arnold's Poetry ").

Poetry, the predominate medium of Futurist literature, can be characterized by its unexpected combinations of images and hyper-conciseness ( not to be confused with the actual length of the poem ).

The main source sources for the earliest preserved poems are the Classic of Poetry, or Shijing and the Songs of the South ( or, Chuci ), although some individual pieces or fragments survive in other forms, for example embedded in classical histories or other literature.

Poetry is a prominent canon of Liberian literature.

At the University of Chicago she attended Thornton Wilder's writing class and earned her MA in Epic Poetry and the literature of the and Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.

In the book Irish Poetry since 1950, John Goodby states it is " by common consent, the most complex poem in modern Irish literature [...]-a massively ambitious, a historiographical metafiction ".

The program's curriculum requires students to take a small number of classes each semester, including the Graduate Fiction Workshop or Graduate Poetry Workshop itself, and one or two additional literature seminars.

She was the first woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955, and was appointed a CBE in 1979 to honour her many contributions to English literature.

He devoted his spare time to literature, and in 1782 published an attack on Thomas Warton's History of English Poetry.

Along with New Criticism, Brooks ’ studies of Faulkner, Southern literature, and T. S. Eliot ’ s The Waste Land ( appearing in Modern Poetry and the Tradition ) remain classic texts.

As a critic of literature, Read mainly concerned himself with the English Romantic poets ( e. g., The True Voice of Feeling: Studies in English Romantic Poetry, 1953 ) but was also a close observer of imagism.

He edited Ballad Poetry of Ireland ( 1843 ) and other works on Irish literature.

They became close friends and formed the Poetry Society of South Carolina, which helped spark a revival of southern literature.

His daughter Charlotte Brooke was herself an important figure in the history of Irish literature, publishing Reliques of Irish Poetry ( 1789 ) and working to increase the profile of Irish language poetry.

The first publication of the new press, in 1936, was " New Directions in Prose & Poetry ," an anthology of poetry and writings by authors such as William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Elizabeth Bishop, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and E. E. Cummings, a roster that heralded the fledgling company's future as a preeminent publisher of modernist literature.

In the middle years of his career he was much in demand as an invitation lecturer, giving BBC wireless talks on Dorothy Osborne and on the Victorian Poets ( 1930 ), delivering the 1933 Warton Lecture on English Poetry to the British Academy, lecturing to the Royal Institution on Classicism and Romanticism ( 1935 ) and to the Royal Society of Literature on travel writing ( 1937 ), and lecturing in German on European literature to packed halls at the British Information Centre in West Berlin in October 1948 during the Berlin Blockade.

Poetry played an important part in the founding of Australian literature.