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    Poetry is a form of literature that uses elements like rhythm, sound, and imagery to convey meaning beyond the literal words. It has a long global history dating back thousands of years, with some of the earliest examples found in Africa and ancient epics like Gilgamesh. Poetry uses devices such as metaphor, rhyme and rhythm to create layers of meaning and interpretation. While some forms respond to specific cultural traditions, modern poetry often adapts diverse styles and techniques from different cultures.

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    Poetry is a form of literature that uses elements like rhythm, sound, and imagery to convey meaning beyond the literal words. It has a long global history dating back thousands of years, with some of the earliest examples found in Africa and ancient epics like Gilgamesh. Poetry uses devices such as metaphor, rhyme and rhythm to create layers of meaning and interpretation. While some forms respond to specific cultural traditions, modern poetry often adapts diverse styles and techniques from different cultures.

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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 language—such


    as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in
    place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

    Poetry has a very long history, dating back to prehistorical times with the creation of
    hunting poetry in Africa, and panegyric and elegiac court poetry was developed
    extensively throughout the history of the empires of the Nile, Niger and Volta river valleys.
    [4] Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa can be found among the Pyramid
    Texts written during the 25th century BCE, while the Epic of Sundiata is one of the most
    well-known examples of griot court poetry. The earliest Western Asian epic poetry, the Epic
    of Gilgamesh, was written in Sumerian. Early poems in the Eurasian continent 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 Greek 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.
    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[5] create a resonance between otherwise disparate
    images—a 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,[6] playing with and testing, among other things, the principle
    of euphony itself, sometimes altogether forgoing rhyme or set rhythm.[7][8] In today's
    increasingly globalized world, poets often adapt forms, styles and techniques from diverse
    cultures and languages.

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