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    Poetry

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    This article is about the art form. For other uses, see Poetry (disambiguation).
    "Poem", "Poems", and "Poetic" redirect here. For other uses, see Poem (disambiguation),
    Poems (disambiguation), and Poetic (disambiguation).
    Poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic[1][2][3] qualities of language
    such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metreto evoke meanings in addition 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 retell 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 Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of
    speech in rhetoric, drama, song and comedy. Later attempts concentrated on features such as
    repetition, verse form and rhyme, and emphasized the aesthetics which distinguish poetry
    from more objectively 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 words, or to evoke
    emotive responses. Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhythm are
    sometimes used to achieve musical or incantatory effects. The use of ambiguity, symbolism,
    irony and other stylistic elements of poetic diction often leaves a poem open to multiple
    interpretations. Similarly figures of speech such as metaphor, simile and metonymy[4] create a
    resonance between otherwise disparate imagesa layering of meanings, forming connections
    previously not perceived. Kindred forms of resonance may exist, between individual verses,
    in their patterns of rhyme or 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 written in lines based on rhyme and
    regular meter; there are, however, traditions, such as Biblical poetry, that use other means to
    create rhythm and euphony. Much modern poetry reflects a critique of poetic tradition,[5]
    playing with and testing, among other things, the principle of euphony itself, sometimes
    altogether forgoing rhyme or set rhythm.[6][7] In today's increasingly globalized world, poets
    often adapt forms, styles and techniques from diverse cultures and languages.

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