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    Poetry is a form of literature that uses elements like rhythm, sound, and imagery to convey meaning beyond the literal meaning of words. Poetry has a very long history dating back to prehistoric times in many cultures around the world. Traditional features of poetry include form, meter, rhyme, figures of speech, and other techniques to create layers of meaning and emotive responses. However, modern poetry often plays with or critiques traditional conventions by forgoing rhyme or set rhythm.

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    Poetry is a form of literature that uses elements like rhythm, sound, and imagery to convey meaning beyond the literal meaning of words. Poetry has a very long history dating back to prehistoric times in many cultures around the world. Traditional features of poetry include form, meter, rhyme, figures of speech, and other techniques to create layers of meaning and emotive responses. However, modern poetry often plays with or critiques traditional conventions by forgoing rhyme or set rhythm.

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    Poetry is a form of literature that uses elements like rhythm, sound, and imagery to convey meaning beyond the literal meaning of words. Poetry has a very long history dating back to prehistoric times in many cultures around the world. Traditional features of poetry include form, meter, rhyme, figures of speech, and other techniques to create layers of meaning and emotive responses. However, modern poetry often plays with or critiques traditional conventions by forgoing rhyme or set rhythm.

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    Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature

    that uses aesthetic and rhythmic[1][2][3] qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound

    symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible

    meaning.

    Poetry has a long history, dating back to prehistorical times with the creation of hunting poetry in

    Africa, and panegyric and elegiac court poetry were developed extensively throughout the history of

    the empires of the Nile, Niger and Volta river valleys [4]. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa

    can be found among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BC, while the Epic of

    Sundiata is one of the most well-known examples of griot court poetry. The earliest Western Asian

    epic poetry, the Epic of Gilgamesh, was written in Sumerian. Early poems in the Eurasian continent

    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 Greek

    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.

    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[5] create a resonance between

    otherwise disparate images—a 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,

    Mickiewicz and 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,[6] playing with and testing, among other

    things, the principle of euphony itself, sometimes altogether forgoing rhyme or set rhythm.[7][8] In

    today's increasingly globe

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