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Meaning poetry meaning

What does poetry mean?
Definitions in simple English

poetry

The art of writing poems. Poetry is much cheaper than painting since you don't need special supplies. A group of poems. This is a book of poetry. Poems in general. Poetry is found all over the world. Beautiful words or speech. To hear my child speak is poetry.

poetry

literature in metrical form any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling

Synonyms poetry synonyms

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Topics poetry topics

What do people use poetry to talk about?

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Simple sentences

She loves poetry and music.
Wine is poetry filled in bottles.
Wine is poetry put into a bottle.
Wine is bottled poetry.
I spent the whole evening reading the poetry of Kenji Miyazawa.
That poem mixes prose with poetry.
Flowers are so fragile and so beautiful, that you can't speak about them without poetry or metaphors.
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty.
I have an inclination for poetry.
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best mind.
I don't give a damn about poetry.
Learning poetry is a good discipline for the memory.
Much has already been said about the difficulty of translating poetry.
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
His poetry does not translate into Japanese.
She was fond of poetry and music.
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
Rhyme and meter form the essential rules of Chinese poetry.
Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.
I write poetry in my free time.
In my free time, I write poetry.
I once read an interesting anthology of poetry generated by a computer program in 1984.
Li Bai's work is the most famous of Chinese poetry.
She liked poetry and music.
We talked about poetry and literature.

Movie subtitles

Josh Lewis, professor of 18th-century poetry.
GLEN MOFFATT'S 'A PLACE TO PLAY' PLAYS I always liked poetry.
Oh, come on. Three chords and the truth - that's gotta be poetry.
It comes, like poetry.
Oh, I want to write poetry.
I guess that wasn't poetry about friends finding an easy place to break your back.
He makes most of it from his poetry.
He writes poetry?
That's different, if it's just poetry.
I write poetry.
He writes poetry on postcards.
Other instances of high elations are. when he plays his tuba, when he writes his poetry. when he chases fire engines in a desire to help humanity.
Oh, poetry.
That's great poetry.
I dove head first into the bewitching world of Islam, which mixed nobility, poetry and cruelty, and where God commanded every move.
Shh! I've just written the most beautiful piece of poetry.
Other instances of high elations are when he plays his tuba, when he writes his poetry, when he chases fire engines in a desire to help humanity.
Yes, and put in one volume of poetry, in case you need a quick nap.
Poetry?
Thank you, sir, but I didn't come for poetry, but for a horse.
Being worthy of Lord Byron's poetry, you shall have the horse.
Let me know when the poetry recital's over.
Nice piece of poetry.
Have him write poetry.
If I deny every human impulse, if I live only in music and poetry.
But love is music, and love is poetry!
Poetry.
There's Limerick, home of poetry.
He don't have to go around shouting that poetry muck all day.
He says that without her, my woods lack poetry, and his gamekeeper's job seems utterly dreary.
Handle him with kid gloves. Put him to work writing poetry.
Just stall him until the extra's out. Then tell him his poetry smells and kick him downstairs.
Why, Connor, they're almost poetry.
But he wrote beautiful poetry.

News and current affairs

Ever since, Republican governments in the US have slashed funding for ballet, poetry in schools, and sculpture, while demagogues like former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani have gained political traction by attacking controversial visual arts.
Who needs to read closely, seek evidence, and make a reasoned argument - skills that the study of poetry, the novel, history, and philosophy provide?
We all went looting the local shops; I still have the slim volumes of romantic poetry which my 16-year-old self took from a bookshop.
Of course, the building lacked poetry.
Yet, the towers could have been a symbol of worldwide poetry, not commerce.
Bin Laden, however, is mesmerizing, framing the perceived frustrations of many Arabs in his use of classical Arabic, including the recitation of medieval-style poetry.
But Al Qaeda's poetry deserves closer attention, because it is a medium of communication between members of the movement.
The Internet and mass media, not poetry, was to be the catalyst in jump-starting Russia's civil society.
Will this knowledge hijack emotion, love, music, poetry, art?
In 2000, he wrote about a poetry contest in Cuba run by the dissident group Reflection.
Women writers wrote exquisite poetry and prose, and they were officially recognized as the equals (well, almost) of their male peers; but they tended to avoid certain topics - and war was a man's business.
For many Filipinos, there is more than enough poetry in this fact, and certainly more irony than Estrada's action-comedy movies of the 1960's ever mustered.
I still have the slim volumes of romantic poetry which my 16-year-old self took from a bookshop.
Poetry, by South Korean director Lee Chang-Dong, also deals with a family reconciling themselves through pain to a prior conflict.
Bin Laden often recites poetry to underscore a point and to associate himself with chivalrous and learned warriors who were willing to become martyrs for Islam's honor and glory.
Moreover, Al Qaeda uses poetry to address the challenges that it faces.
Jean-Claude Trichet, until recently the president of the European Central Bank, liked to claim that money was like poetry, before adding that both give a sense of stability.
It is often said that democratic politicians campaign in poetry and govern in prose.

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