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other uses, see Poetry (disambiguation).

Literature

Major forms

Novel ·? Poem ·? Drama

Short story ·? Novella

Genres

Epic ·? Lyric ·? Drama

Romance ·? Satire

Tragedy ·? Comedy

Tragicomedy

Media

Performance (play) ·? Book

Techniques

Prose ·? Verse

History and lists

Outline of literature

Index of terms

History ·? Modern history

Books ·? Writers

Literary awards ·? Poetry awards

Discussion

Criticism ·? Theory ·? Magazines

"Poem", "Poems", and "Poetic" redirect here. For other uses, see Poem

(disambiguation), Poems (disambiguation), and Poetic (disambiguation).

Poetry (from the Greek 'poiesis'/ποί?ησις? [poieo/ποιέ?ω], a making: forming,

creating, or the art of poetry, or a poem) is a form of literary art in which

language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in

lieu of, its apparent meaning.

Poetry has a long history, dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. The

earliest poems evolved from folk songs, such as the Chinese Shijing, or from the

need to retell oral epics, such as the Sanskrit Vedas, Zoroastrian Gathas, and

the Homeric epics, the Odyssey and the Iliad. 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 labelled as a fundamental

creative act using language.

Poetry primarily is governed by idiosyncratic forms and...