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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 with different oral poetic forms found in early African, Middle Eastern, Asian, and European cultures. Ancient Greek philosophers like Aristotle attempted to analyze and define what distinguishes poetry from other forms of writing by focusing on its uses of speech, verse forms, and aesthetic qualities. Poetry uses devices like rhythm, metaphor, and ambiguity to suggest multiple interpretations and create layered meanings through connections between images and ideas. Different cultures have developed diverse poetic genres and types that respond to their traditions.

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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 with different oral poetic forms found in early African, Middle Eastern, Asian, and European cultures. Ancient Greek philosophers like Aristotle attempted to analyze and define what distinguishes poetry from other forms of writing by focusing on its uses of speech, verse forms, and aesthetic qualities. Poetry uses devices like rhythm, metaphor, and ambiguity to suggest multiple interpretations and create layered meanings through connections between images and ideas. Different cultures have developed diverse poetic genres and types that respond to their traditions.

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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 with different oral poetic forms found in early African, Middle Eastern, Asian, and European cultures. Ancient Greek philosophers like Aristotle attempted to analyze and define what distinguishes poetry from other forms of writing by focusing on its uses of speech, verse forms, and aesthetic qualities. Poetry uses devices like rhythm, metaphor, and ambiguity to suggest multiple interpretations and create layered meanings through connections between images and ideas. Different cultures have developed diverse poetic genres and types that respond to their traditions.

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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 very long history, dating back to prehistorical times with the creation of
    hunting poetry in Africa, and panegyric and elegiac court poetry was 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 BCE, while the Epic of Sundiata is one of the most well-
    known examples of griotcourt 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 Iliadand 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, simileand 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

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