poetry
has definitions from the fields of verse,writing
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[ noun ] (verse,writing) literature in metrical form
Used in print (Philip Reaves, "Who Rules the Marriage Bed?"...)In tradition and in poetry , the marriage_bed is a place of unity and harmony . (Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)Whether in prose or poetry , all_of Heidenstam 's later work was concerned with Sweden . To carry_out this exalted conception the author has combined the vivid realism and imaginative power we have noticed in his early poetry and carried them out on a grand scale . (Robert E. Lane, The Liberties of Wit: Humanism, Critici...)The terms `` renewal '' and `` refreshed '' , which often come_up in aesthetic discussion , seem partly to derive their import from the `` renewal '' of purpose and a `` refreshed '' sense of significance a person may receive from poetry , drama , and fiction . William_Wimsatt and Cleanth_Brooks , it seems to me , have a penetrating insight into the way in_which this control is effected : `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) - then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification , compounding , or magnification , or any direct assault upon the affections at_all . |
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[ noun ] any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling
Used in print (Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)Or , equally often , a concretistic seeming , particularistic seeming statement may consist , with its mundane exterior , in a form of poetry - may be full of meaning and emotion when interpreted as a figurative expression : a metaphor , a simile , an allegory , or some other symbolic mode of speaking . Related terms |
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