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Poiesis: Poetry (The Term Derives From A Variant of The

Poetry is a form of literature that uses elements like rhythm, sound, and imagery to convey meaning beyond the literal translation of words. Poetry has a long history dating back to ancient epics and evolved from oral traditions and folk songs. Early attempts to define poetry focused on its uses in rhetoric, drama, and performance, while later definitions emphasized poetic techniques like repetition, form, and rhyme. Poetry uses devices like assonance, alliteration, and rhythm to create musical or symbolic effects and often relies on ambiguity and multiple interpretations. Different poetry forms emerged from specific cultures and languages but modern poetry continues to experiment with and critique traditional conventions.

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Poiesis: Poetry (The Term Derives From A Variant of The

Poetry is a form of literature that uses elements like rhythm, sound, and imagery to convey meaning beyond the literal translation of words. Poetry has a long history dating back to ancient epics and evolved from oral traditions and folk songs. Early attempts to define poetry focused on its uses in rhetoric, drama, and performance, while later definitions emphasized poetic techniques like repetition, form, and rhyme. Poetry uses devices like assonance, alliteration, and rhythm to create musical or symbolic effects and often relies on ambiguity and multiple interpretations. Different poetry forms emerged from specific cultures and languages but modern poetry continues to experiment with and critique traditional conventions.

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Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form

of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic[1][2][3] qualities of languagesuch


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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