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*”poetry” is a ‘form’ of ‘literature’ that uses [‘aesthetic’ / ‘rhythmic’] qualities of ‘language’—such as [‘phon-aesthetics’ / ‘sound symbolism’ / ‘meter’ (NOT “metre”) —to evoke ‘meanings’ in addition to (or “in place of”) the ‘prosaic ostensible meaning’*
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(‘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 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, playing with and testing, among other things, the principle of euphony itself, sometimes altogether forgoing rhyme or ‘set rhythm’)
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(in today’s increasingly globalized world, poets often adapt forms, styles, and techniques from diverse ‘cultures’ / ‘languages’)
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