Poetry
11poetry — It is a commonly acknowledged truism that reading and writing poetry are both valued and difficult exercises. Poetry has an important cultural position because it is often manifestly difficult, made so by the apparent obscurity of its… …
12poetry — Reflecting China’s rapidly changing political, social and cultural topography at the end of the twentieth century, poetry too has experienced a dazzling and fast paced transformation in both thematic concern and aesthetic orientation. The… …
13poetry — The trajectory of Spanish poetry in the years 1939–90 is complex, beginning with the relatively impoverished poetic landscape of the aftermath of the Civil War. The social and existential themes of the 1940s and 1950s eventually gave way to a… …
14poetry — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Expression in poems Nouns 1. poetry, ars poetica, poesy, poeticism, poetics, metrics; balladry, the gay science; Muse, Calliope, Erato; versification, rhyming, prosody, orthometry, scansion. See writing …
15Poetry — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Poetry >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 poetry poetry poetics poesy Muse Calliope tuneful Nine Parnassus Helicon Pierides Pierian spring GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 versification versifica …
16poetry — ‘All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ (William Wordsworth, 1801). The distinction in modern literature between prose and poetry is difficult to apply to the Bible, but there is a tradition that regards certain OT… …
17poetry — 01. I don t really like [poetry]; I d rather read a novel any day. 02. The lyrics to some of the Beatles songs were often quite [poetic]. 03. The play ends rather [poetically] with the woman dying in her lover s arms. 04. The little girl wrote a… …
18poetry — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ good, great ▪ bad ▪ classical ▪ contemporary, modern ▪ experimental …
19poetry — po|et|ry W3 [ˈpəuıtri US ˈpou ] n [U] 1.) poems in general, or the art of writing them →↑poem, poet ↑poet ▪ He reads a lot of poetry. ▪ a poetry magazine modern/lyric/love etc poetry ▪ a selection of religious poetry 2.) a qual …
20Poetry — Has been well defined as the measured language of emotion. Hebrew poetry deals almost exclusively with the great question of man s relation to God. Guilt, condemnation, punishment, pardon, redemption, repentance are the awful themes of this… …
