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    Poetry is a form of literary art that uses language to evoke meaning through aesthetic qualities rather than just information. It has a long history dating back to ancient works like the Epic of Gilgamesh. Traditional definitions of poetry focused on uses of speech and language features like meter and rhyme, but modern poetry sometimes challenges poetic conventions.

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    Poetry is a form of literary art that uses language to evoke meaning through aesthetic qualities rather than just information. It has a long history dating back to ancient works like the Epic of Gilgamesh. Traditional definitions of poetry focused on uses of speech and language features like meter and rhyme, but modern poetry sometimes challenges poetic conventions.

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    Poetry (from the Greek poiesis with a broad meaning of a "making", seen also in s erms as "hemopoiesis"; more narrowly,

    ly, the making of poetry) is a form of literar y art which uses the aesthetic qualities of language to evoke meanings in additi on to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning. Poetry has a long history, dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. Early poems evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese Shijing, or from a need to ret ell oral epics, as with the Sanskrit Vedas, Zoroastrian Gathas, and the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Ancient attempts to define poetry, such as Ari stotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song and com edy. Later attempts concentrated on features such as repetition, verse form and rhyme, and emphasized the aesthetics which distinguish poetry from more objectiv ely-informative, prosaic forms of writing. From the mid-20th century, poetry has sometimes been more generally regarded as a fundamental creative act employing language. Poetry uses forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretation to word s, or to evoke emotive responses. Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onoma topoeia and rhythm are sometimes used to achieve musical or incantatory effects. The use of ambiguity, symbolism, irony and other stylistic elements of poetic d iction often leaves a poem open to multiple interpretations. Similarly, metaphor , simile and metonymy[1] create a resonance between otherwise disparate imagesa l ayering of meanings, forming connections previously not perceived. Kindred forms of resonance may exist, between individual verses, in their patterns of rhyme o r rhythm. Some poetry types are specific to particular cultures and genres and respond to characteristics of the language in which the poet writes. Readers accustomed to identifying poetry with Dante, Goethe, Mickiewicz and Rumi may think of it as wr itten in lines based on rhyme and regular meter; however, there are traditions, such as Biblical poetry, that use other means to create rhythm and euphony. Much modern poetry reflects a critique of poetic tradition,[2] playing with and test ing, among other things, the principle of euphony itself, sometimes altogether f orgoing rhyme or set rhythm.[3][4] In today's increasingly globalized world, poe ts often adapt forms, styles and techniques from diverse cultures and languages.

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