POETRY

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Literature in metrical form

Synonyms:

poesy; poetry; verse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("poetry" is a kind of...):

genre; literary genre; writing style (a style of expressing yourself in writing)

Domain member category:

sweet; sweetly (in an affectionate or loving manner ('sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of 'sweetly'))

apace ((poetic, literary) quickly)

lyric (of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way))

scrivened (copied in handwriting)

stilly ((poetic) still or calm)

darkling ((poetic) occurring in the dark or night)

scan (conform to a metrical pattern)

sonnet (praise in a sonnet)

sonnet (compose a sonnet)

elegise; elegize (compose an elegy)

spondaise; spondaize (make spondaic)

metrify (compose in poetic meter)

poetise; poetize; verse; versify (compose verses or put into verse)

alliterate (use alliteration as a form of poetry)

tag (supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes)

rhyme; rime (compose rhymes)

relyric (write new lyrics for (a song))

lyric (write lyrics for (a song))

Erin (an early name of Ireland that is now used in poetry)

dolor; dolour ((poetry) painful grief)

hush; still; stillness ((poetic) tranquil silence)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poetry"):

epos (a body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme)

epic poetry; heroic poetry (poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero)

Derivation:

poetical (of or relating to poetry)

Domain member category:

wont to (in the habit of doing something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("poetry" is a kind of...):

expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)

Derivation:

poetic (characterized by romantic imagery)

poetic (characteristic of or befitting poetry)

poetic (of or relating to poetry)

poetical (characteristic of or befitting poetry)

poetical (of or relating to poetry)

Credits

Context examples:

The learning of this people is very defective, consisting only in morality, history, poetry, and mathematics, wherein they must be allowed to excel.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Walt Irvine drew himself away with a jerk from the metaphysics and poetry of the organic miracle of blossom, and surveyed the landscape.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He would gain cheerfulness, and she would learn to be an enthusiast for Scott and Lord Byron; nay, that was probably learnt already; of course they had fallen in love over poetry.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

They condescended occasionally to poetry or oratory; and Byron, Charles James Fox, Sheridan, and Castlereagh, preserved some reputation amongst them, in spite of their publicity.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Everybody had read it, and everybody was discussing whether or not it was really poetry.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A blank, through which the warriors of poetry and history march on in stately hosts that seem to have no end—and what comes next!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Your eyebrows have become as thick as my finger, and your forehead resembles what, in some very astonishing poetry, I once saw styled, 'a blue-piled thunderloft.'

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Here's what may leave all painting and all music behind, and what poetry only can attempt to describe!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Jo unfolded it, and looked much abashed, for it was one of her own contributions to a paper that paid for poetry, which accounted for her sending it an occasional attempt.