Definition of Poery
Poetry, the gift of penetrating into the inner soul or secret of a
thing, and bodying it forth rhythmically so as to captivate the
imagination and the heart.
- Wikipedia
Po"et*ry (?), n. [OF. poeterie.
See Poet.] 1. The art of apprehending and
interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of
idealizing in thought and in expression.
For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of
all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions,
language. Coleridge.
2. Imaginative language or composition,
whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical
composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic
poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric
poetry. "The planetlike music of poetry." Sir
P. Sidney.
She taketh most delight
In music, instruments, and poetry.
Shak.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the
Magazines.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- the class of literature comprising poems
- composition in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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