Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

Poetry for a Persian is nothing less than truth and beauty.

F.S.C. Northrop, in his discussion of The `` Functions And Future Of Poetry '', suggests this: `` One of the things which makes our lives drab and empty and which leaves us, at the end of the day, fatigued and deflated spiritually is the pressure of the taxing, practical, utilitarian concern of common-sense objects.

Poetry was for him ...' a morbid secretion ', as the pearl is for the oyster.

*** The Classic of Poetry is made up of 305 poems divided into 160 folk songs, 74 minor festal songs, traditionally sung at court festivities, 31 major festal songs, sung at more solemn court ceremonies, and 40 hymns and eulogies, sung at sacrifices to gods and ancestral spirits of the royal house.

Lessing is important as a literary critic for his work Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry.

T. S. Eliot attacked the reputation of Kubla Khan and sparked a dispute within literary criticism with his analysis of the poem in his essay " Origin and Uses of Poetry " from The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ( 1933 ): " The way in which poetry is written is not, so far as our knowledge of these obscure matters as yet extends, any clue to its value ...

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 is often separated into lines on a page.

The Public Address events include Informative Speaking, Persuasive Speaking, Rhetorical Criticism, and After Dinner Speaking ; the Limited Preparation events include Impromptu Speaking and Extemporaneous Speaking ; and the interpretation events include Poetry, Prose, Dramatic Interpretation, Dramatic Duo Interpretation ( in which at least one dramatic piece is presented by two speakers working together ), Duo Interpretation ( in which two speakers present a scene or scenes from any source ), and Programmed Oral Interpretation ( in which speakers use material from multiple genres with a common theme ).

Poetry, such as Sappho's, written in quantitative verse, is difficult to reproduce in English which uses stress-based meters and rhyme compared to Ancient Greek's solely length-based meters.

The current ( 2012 ) Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion is Dominique Ashaheed, who was also part of Denver's Slam Nuba in 2011.

For example, at Berklee College of Music, in Boston, Slam Poetry is now available as a Minor course of study.

" Poetry reveals being in the way in which, if it is genuine poetry, it commences something new.

One such example is the Mead of Poetry, a mead of Norse mythology crafted from the blood of the wise being Kvasir which turns the drinker into a poet or scholar.

Poetry is further subdivided into epic, lyric, and drama.

The Poetry is in the pity.

The Poetry is in the pity.

Heaney's engagement with poetry as a necessary engine for cultural and personal change, is reflected in his prose works The Redress of Poetry ( 1995 ) and Finders Keepers: Selected Prose, 1971 – 2001 ( 2002 ).

* John Stuart Mill: What is Poetry?

He is also a member of the UK Poetry Society, and his poems have appeared in Poetry Review.

Between 1982 and 1984, he held the esteemed position of Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts.

In the 18th century there were increasing numbers of such collections, including Thomas D ' Urfey's Wit and Mirth: or, Pills to Purge Melancholy ( 1719 – 20 ) and Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry ( 1765 ).

He also illustrated several best-selling books, including Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens ( 1875 ), Selections from the Poetry of Robert Herrick ( 1882 ), and She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith ( 1887 ).

But as Chu points out, there are plenty of examples of science fiction poetry and verse by writers including Diane Ackerman, Emily Dickinson, Suzette Haden Elgin ( who founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association and authored The Science Fiction Poetry Handbook ), Ruth Fainlight, Robert Frazier, Cathy Park Hong, Andrew Joron, and Frederick Turner, among many others.

Poetry Slam, Inc. holds several National and World Poetry Slams, including the Individual World Poetry Slam, The National Poetry Team Slam and The Women of the World Poetry Slam.

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

He was the recipient of many honours, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

* American — Bloch, Albert: Many works, including Harlequinade ( 1911 ), Piping Pierrot ( 1911 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( 1913 ), Three Pierrots and Harlequin ( 1914 ); Bradley, Will: Various posters and illustrations ( see, e. g., " Banning " under Poetry below ); Heintzelman, Arthur William: Pierrot ( n. d .); Hopper, Edward: Soir Bleu ( 1914 ); Kuhn, Walt: The White Clown ( 1929 ); Parrish, Maxfield: Pierrot's Serenade ( 1908 ), The Lantern-Bearers ( 1908 ), Her Window ( 1922 ); Sloan, John: Clown Making Up ( 1909 ).

Anderson also recorded a number of limited-release singles in the late 1970s ( many issued from the Holly Soloman Gallery ), songs from which were included on a number of compilations, including Giorno Poetry Systems ' The Nova Convention and You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With.

He wrote a series of works on the nature of poetry, including The Idea of Great Poetry ( 1925 ) and Romanticism ( 1926 ).

Mensa also has published a number of books, including Poetry Mensa ( 1966 ), an anthology of poems by Mensans from all over the world, in which languages other than English are represented.

* Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including video clip

* Profile and poems of Emily Dickinson, including audio files, at the Poetry Foundation.

Even more recent activity focused around poets in Bloodaxe Books ' The New Poetry, including Simon Armitage, Kathleen Jamie, Glyn Maxwell, Selima Hill, Maggie Hannan, Michael Hofmann and Peter Reading.

* William Kurtz Wimsatt, Jr. Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry ( collected essays including the influential critical essays “ The Intentional Fallacy ” and “ The Affective Fallacy ” cowritten with Monroe Beardsley ).

Bell has taught in various creative writing programs, including the Iowa Writers ' Workshop, the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, and the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars.

* Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including video clip

She has received many awards for her work, including the Governor General's Literary Award, 2004, and the Griffin Poetry Prize, 2005 for Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida.

* Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including video clip