Poetry

Noun

 * 1) The class of literature comprising poems.
 * 2) Composition in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns.
 * 3) A poet's literary production
 * 4) A 'poetical' quality, artistic and/or artfull, which appeals or stirs the imagination, in any medium
 * ''That 'Swan Lake' choreography is poetry in motion, fitting the musical poetry of Tchaikovski's divine score well beyond the literary inspiration

Synonyms

 * poesy

Antonyms

 * prose

Related terms

 * poeticize
 * poetize
 * poetic
 * poetics

Adjectives for Poetry
pastoral; clear; academic; allegorical; visionary; smooth; respectable; lyrical; essential; faulty; satirical; joyful; dramatic; descriptive; subservient; romantic; charlatan; tragic; epic; devotional; delicate; meditative; riotous; spiritual; imaginative; impassioned; bewildering; elder; tender; high-mannered; dreamy; austere; barbarous; glorious; mournful; vague; original.

Verbs for Poetry
conceive—; cultivate—; deliver—; like—; interpret—; mold—; resort to—; toy with —; —charms; —conveys; —delights; — eases; —elevates; —enchants; —endures; —nourishes; —humanizes; —inspires; — narrates; —reflects; —reveals; —softens; — soothes; —springs from.

Thesaurus
Apollo, Apollo Musagetes, Bragi, Calliope, Castilian Spring, Erato, Euterpe, Helicon, Hippocrene, Muse, Parnassus, Pierian Spring, Pierides, Polyhymnia, afflatus, creative imagination, ease, elegance, facility, fire of genius, flow, fluency, grace, gracefulness, inspiration, metrics, poesy, poetic genius, rhyme, rune, smoothness, song, the Muses, verse, versification

Etymology
From ποίησις:, from ποιέω:.

Translations

 * Albanian: poezi
 * Arabic:
 * Aragonese:
 * Azeri: şeir
 * Basque: olerkigintza
 * Belarusian: паэзія
 * Bulgarian: поезия
 * Burmese: ကဗျာ
 * Catalan:
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 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Gan:
 * Mandarin: 詩歌, 诗歌
 * Min Nan: ,
 * Wu:
 * Corsican: puesia
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: poesi, digtekunst, lyrik, digtning
 * Dutch: poëzie, dichtkunst
 * Esperanto:
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 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kannada: ಕವನ


 * Karakalpak:
 * Korean: (詩)
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: dzeja
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam: കവിത
 * Nepali:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, ,
 * Nynorsk: poesi
 * Occitan:
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 * Samogitian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: поезија
 * Roman: poezija
 * Slovak: poézia
 * Slovene: pesništvo
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: poesi
 * Tamil: கவிதை
 * Telugu: కవిత, కవిత్వం
 * Thai: กวีนิพนธ์
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: поезія
 * Urdu:
 * Volapük: poedav
 * Yiddish: דיכטונג, פאעזיע


 * Catalan:
 * Croatian: ,
 * Dutch: poëzie, dichtwerk
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: poezio


 * Japanese: 韻文
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: poëzie, dichtwerk


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 * Greek:


 * : poezi
 * : poeziya
 * : поезия (poeziǎ)
 * : poezio
 * : პოეზია (p‘oezia)
 * : Poesie, Dichtung, Dichtkunst
 * : שירה (shirá)
 * : puisi
 * : poesia
 * : 시 (si)
 * : dzeja
 * : poezija


 * : കവിത (kavitha)
 * : (čâme sarâyī)
 * : poetică
 * : bàrdachd, filidheachd
 * Cyrillic: поезија
 * Latin: poezija
 * : poézia
 * : şıır
 * : erkin shéir
 * : thơ
 * : barddas
 * : (poezie)
 * : (poezie)