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    Poetry is a form of literature that uses elements like sound, rhythm, and imagery to convey meaning beyond the literal words. It has a long history dating back to ancient epics. Early attempts to define poetry focused on its uses in rhetoric, drama, song, and comedy, while later definitions emphasized aesthetics and forms like repetition, rhyme, and verse. Modern poetry sometimes views the creative use of language as poetry's fundamental purpose. It employs techniques like metaphor, simile, and ambiguity to create layers of meaning and resonance within and between verses. Cultural traditions and genres influence a poet's style and use of elements like rhyme, rhythm, and forms.

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    Poetry is a form of literature that uses elements like sound, rhythm, and imagery to convey meaning beyond the literal words. It has a long history dating back to ancient epics. Early attempts to define poetry focused on its uses in rhetoric, drama, song, and comedy, while later definitions emphasized aesthetics and forms like repetition, rhyme, and verse. Modern poetry sometimes views the creative use of language as poetry's fundamental purpose. It employs techniques like metaphor, simile, and ambiguity to create layers of meaning and resonance within and between verses. Cultural traditions and genres influence a poet's style and use of elements like rhyme, rhythm, and forms.

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    POETRY WIKI:

    Poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic


    [1][2][3]
    qualities of languagesuch
    as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metreto evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of,
    the prosaicostensible meaning.
    Poetry has a long history, dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. Early poems evolved from
    folk songs such as the Chinese Shijing, or from a need to retell oral epics, as with
    the Sanskrit Vedas,Zoroastrian Gathas, and the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Ancient
    attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses
    of speech in rhetoric, drama, song and comedy. Later attempts concentrated on features such as
    repetition, verse form and rhyme, and emphasized the aesthetics which distinguish poetry from more
    objectively informative, prosaic forms of writing. From the mid-20th century, poetry has sometimes
    been more generally regarded as a fundamental creative act employing language.
    Poetry uses forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretation to words, or to evoke
    emotive responses. Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhythm are sometimes
    used to achieve musical or incantatory effects. The use of ambiguity, symbolism, irony and
    other stylistic elements of poetic diction often leaves a poem open to multiple interpretations. Similarly
    figures of speech such as metaphor, simile and metonymy
    [4]
    create a resonance between otherwise
    disparate imagesa layering of meanings, forming connections previously not perceived. Kindred
    forms of resonance may exist, between individual verses, in their patterns of rhyme or rhythm.
    Some poetry types are specific to particular cultures and genres and respond to characteristics of the
    language in which the poet writes. Readers accustomed to identifying poetry
    with Dante, Goethe, Mickiewiczand Rumi may think of it as written in lines based on rhyme and
    regular meter; there are, however, traditions, such as Biblical poetry, that use other means to create
    rhythm and euphony. Much modern poetry reflects a critique of poetic tradition,
    [5]
    playing with and
    testing, among other things, the principle of euphony itself, sometimes altogether forgoing rhyme or
    set rhythm.
    [6][7]
    In today's increasingly globalized world, poets often adapt forms, styles and
    techniques from diverse cultures and languages.

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