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Poetry
Poetry is a form of literary art making use of rythmic and aesthetic qualities of language to evoke meanings. Poetry has a long history evolving from folk music.
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Poetry
Literature; Poetry
A literary expression in which language is used in a concentrated blend of sound and imagery to create an emotional response; essentially rhythmic, it is usually metrical and frequently structured in ...
Poems of chance
Literature; Poetry
Poetry created by adherents of the dadaistic movement, composed by writing down, without alteration, an illogical chance association of words, free of the limitations of rational and artistic thought ...
Pleiade
Literature; Poetry
Named after the open cluster in the constellation Taurus, a group of 16th century French poets who sought to restore the level of French poetry from its decline in the Middle Ages to classical ...
Poesy
Literature; Poetry
A poem or a group of poems, i.e., poetry. The term also refers to the art of writing poems, often used in the sense of trite or sentimentalised poetic writing.
Pun
Literature; Poetry
A word play suggesting, with humorous intent, the different meanings of one word or the use of two or more words similar in sound but different in meaning.
Prothalamium
Literature; Poetry
A song or poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom before their wedding.
Prosopopeia
Literature; Poetry
A figure of speech in which an imaginary or absent person is represented as speaking.
