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.

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.

* Poetry written by Abraham Lincoln

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Poetry scholar Derek Attridge describes how this works in his book Poetic Rhythm – " rap lyrics are written to be performed to an accompaniment that emphasizes the metrical structure of the verse ".

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Poetry written during the war, which had either been broadcast from London or had circulated illegally, was published as collections in the spring of 1945, and enjoyed a popularity that Norwegian poetry has not seen before or since.

The following excerpt is from a poem titled Dream and Poetry, written in vernacular Chinese by Hu.

The March issue of Poetry contained A Few Don ' ts by an Imagiste and the essay entitled Imagisme both written by Pound, with the latter being attributed to Flint.

Some of the authors who have written about the Italian American experience are Pietro Di Donato ; Lawrence Ferlinghetti ; Dana Gioia, Executive Director of the National Endowment for the Arts ; John Fusco, author of Paradise Salvage ; and Daniela Gioseffi, winner of the John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry and The American Book Award.

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Poetry written in Latin, Brythonic ( a predecessor language of Welsh ) and Old Irish survives which may date as early as the 6th century.

In 1760, noted Shakespearean editor Edward Capell included the play in his Prolusions ; or, Select Pieces of Ancient Poetry, Compil'd with great Care from their several Originals, and Offer'd to the Publicke as Specimens of the Integrity that should be Found in the Editions of worthy Authors, and concluded that it had been written by Shakespeare.

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The Awards recognize written and artistic works in 30 categories, including Architecture, Comic Art, Ceramics & Glass, Digital Art, Design, Drawing, Fashion, Film & Animation, Jewelry, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Video Games, Art Portfolio, Photography Portfolio, Dramatic Script, Humor, Journalism, Personal Essay / Memoir, Persuasive Writing, Poetry, Novel Writing, Science Fiction / Fantasy, Short Story, Short, Short Story, General Writing Portfolio, Nonfiction Portfolio, and Creativity & Citizenship.

The term was first used in Classic of Poetry written as early as 3000 years ago.

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His collection V-Letter and Other Poems, written while Shapiro was stationed in New Guinea, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945, while Shapiro was still in the military.

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Some of the books were written with combination of both the Prose and Poetry.

Part of his official duties as Chair of Poetry was to create poems for various University celebrations, programs, debates and funeral services of his colleagues-all of these written either Latin or Greek.

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