2025年3月28日 · poetry, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. (Read Britannica’s biography of this author, Howard Nemerov.)

Poetry is a type of literature, or artistic writing, that attempts to stir a reader’s imagination or emotions. The poet does this by carefully choosing and arranging language for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.

A poem is not just a compilation of words; it is words put together to create sound patterns and certain rhythms that together produce a specific effect. The sounds and rhythms are peculiar to the language, and each language has its special qualities. Poems are meant to be read aloud—that was their first use.

2025年3月28日 · Poetry - Form, Rhyme, Meter: People’s reason for wanting a definition is to take care of the borderline case, and this is what a definition, as if by definition, will not do.

POETRY meaning: 1 : the writings of a poet poems; 2 : something that is very beautiful or graceful

poetry, Writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through its meaning, sound, and rhythm.

Slam poetry is a form of performance poetry that combines elements of performance, writing, competition, and audience participation. It is performed at events called poetry slams. The name slam came from how the audience has the power to praise or, sometimes, destroy a poem.

2025年3月28日 · Poetry - Form, Rhyme, Meter: People nowadays who speak of form in poetry almost always mean such externals as regular measure and rhyme, and most often they mean to get rid of these in favor of the freedom they suppose must follow upon the …

Poetry, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. (Read Britannica’s...

2025年2月18日 · A haiku is an unrhymed poem consisting of 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively.