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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...