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.

Poetry is esteemed, including extemporaneous rhyme competitions on given topics.

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.

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.

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.

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

Other poets mentioned further on in the sections on Women Poets and Irish Poetry Today ( in the 21st century ) deserve a prominence equal to the poets mentioned here.

A new translation by Timothy Allen of the opening section of the poem was awarded one of The Times Stephen Spender prizes for Poetry Translation in 2008 ; further extracts from Allen's translation have appeared in Cosmopolis, ( the Summer 2009 edition of Poetry Review '.

The supernatural spirits thought otherwise, however, ordering Merrill to write and publish further installments, Mirabell: Books of Number in 1978 ( which won the National Book Award for Poetry )

In 2006 the consortium was granted half a million dollars by the Australian Research Council to further extend the work as a research project as the Australian Poetry Research Internet Library ( APRIL ) with an internet site hosted by the University of Sydney Library, at http :// www. poetrylibrary. edu. au /.

Smith's first book of poetry, The Other Meaning, was published in 1956 and he has since published eight further collections, among which Tide Country won the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Poetry and the Grace Leven Prize.

Poetry may then be subdivided into epic, lyric, and dramatic.

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 is a retired Poetry professor from EHESS and a member of the Oulipo group, he has also published poetry, plays, novels, and translated English poetry and books into French such as Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark.

Bragi then tells how the Mead of Poetry, by way of the god Odin, ultimately came into the hands of mankind.

Further, in chapter 3, a prose narrative mentions that the Kvasir ’ s blood was made into the Mead of Poetry.

The family lived in Campbell, California, Later, while a junior at Campbell High School, he was the youngest person voted into the Edwin Markham Poetry Society, and won first place in the Society's student poetry contest.

On his return, Harriet Monroe published in Poetry magazine first his poem " General William Booth Enters into Heaven " in 1913 and then " The Congo " in 1914.

Poetry, a form of literature older than prose, was in ancient times divided into narrative, dramatic, and lyric forms.

Poetry falls ready-made from the sky, like manna into the mouths of the Israelites in the desert.

* L ' avalée des avalés-1966 ( translated into English by Barbara Bray as The Swallower Swallowed ) ( winner of the 1966 Governor General's Award for Poetry or Drama ( Poésie et théâtre ))

Hoogland is the founder and the co-artistic director of Poetry London ( www. poetrylondon. ca ), an organization that brings prominent writers into lively discussion with London writers and readers.

Entitled The Fleshly School of Poetry, this article was expanded into a pamphlet ( 1872 ), but he subsequently withdrew from the criticisms it contained, and it is chiefly remembered by the replies it evoked from Dante Gabriel Rossetti in a letter to the Athenaeum ( December 16, 1871 ), entitled The Stealthy School of Criticism, and from Algernon Charles Swinburne in Under the Microscope ( 1872 ).

Also, the appearance in 1960 of Donald Allen's anthology The New American Poetry 1945-1960 ( which divides the poets included in its pages into various schools ) was crucial: it established a legacy and promoted the influence of the Black Mountain poets worldwide.

With Peter Quartermain Caddel also edited Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970 ( USA, 1999 ); whereas Keith Tuma's Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry ( Oxford University Press, USA, 2001 ) incorporates this poetry into a wider retrospective of the whole century.

New Bearings in English Poetry was the first major volume of criticism Leavis was to publish, and it provides insight into his own critical positions.

Poetry was not chiefly studied during the medieval times, although some classic poems were taken into the curriculum.

Simmons produced Def Poetry, begun as a television series on HBO, which also branched into a Broadway live stage production in 2002.

Among his best-known works are the didactic poem in three books, De arte poetica ( On the Art of Poetry ), partly inspired by Horace, and Scacchia Ludus (" The Game of Chess "), translated into many languages over the centuries.

" Priest Skear ", a pamphlet that turns the drowning of the 23 Chinese cocklepickers in Morecambe Bay in 2004 into a political allegory, appeared in 2010 and was the Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice for winter 2010.

* Poetry by various poets-Lines of poems are embedded into bricks on the station platform floor