Poetry

English

Noun

Poetry (uncountable)

1. The class of literature comprising poems.
2. Composition in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns.
3. A poet's literary production
4. A 'poetical' quality, artistic and/or artfull, which appeals or stirs the imagination, in any medium

   That 'Swan Lake' choreography is poetry in motion, fitting the musical poetry of Tchaikovski's divine score well beyond the literary inspiration

Quotations

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Synonyms

• poesy

Antonyms

• prose

Related terms

• poeticize
• poetize
• poetic
• poetics

Adjectives for Poetry

pastoral; clear; academic; allegorical; visionary; smooth; respectable; lyrical; essential; faulty; satirical; joyful; dramatic; descriptive; subservient; romantic; charlatan; tragic; epic; devotional; delicate; meditative; riotous; spiritual; imaginative; impassioned; bewildering; elder; tender; high-mannered; dreamy; austere; barbarous; glorious; mournful; vague; original.

Verbs for Poetry

conceive—; cultivate—; deliver—; like—; interpret—; mold—; resort to—; toy with —; —charms; —conveys; —delights; — eases; —elevates; —enchants; —endures; —nourishes; —humanizes; —inspires; — narrates; —reflects; —reveals; —softens; — soothes; —springs from.

Thesaurus

Apollo, Apollo Musagetes, Bragi, Calliope, Castilian Spring, Erato, Euterpe, Helicon, Hippocrene, Muse, Parnassus, Pierian Spring, Pierides, Polyhymnia, afflatus, creative imagination, ease, elegance, facility, fire of genius, flow, fluency, grace, gracefulness, inspiration, metrics, poesy, poetic genius, rhyme, rune, smoothness, song, the Muses, verse, versification

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ποίησις (poiesis, “poetry”), from ποιέω (poieō, “I make, do, create”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: [ˈpʰoʊ̯.ətˌɹi]

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• (RP) IPA: [ˈpɘʊʷɘtɹɪ]

Translations

class of literature

Albanian: poezi (sq) f. Arabic: شعر (ar) (shi3r) m. Aragonese: poesía (an) f. Azeri: şeir (az) Basque: olerkigintza (eu) Belarusian: паэзія (be) (paézija) f. Bulgarian: поезия (bg) (poezija) f. Burmese: [[ကဗျာ#{{{1}}}|ကဗျာ]] (my) Catalan: poesia (ca) f. Cebuano: balak Chinese: Cantonese: trad. 詩, simpl. 诗 (Jyutping: si1) Gan: trad. 詩, simpl. 诗 Mandarin: 詩歌 (zh), 诗歌 (zh) (shīgē) Min Nan: 歌詩 (koa-si), 詩歌 (si-koa) Wu: trad. 詩, simpl. 诗 Corsican: puesia (co) Croatian: pjȅsnīštvo (hr) n., pòēzija (hr) f. Czech: poezie (cs) f. Danish: poesi (da) c., digtekunst (da) c., lyrik (da) c., digtning (da) c. Dutch: poëzie, dichtkunst Esperanto: poezio (eo) Estonian: luule (et) Finnish: runous (fi) French: poésie (fr) f. Galician: poesía (gl) f. Georgian: პოეზია (ka) (p‘oezia) Greek: ποίηση (el) (pí'isi) f. Hebrew: שִׁירָה (he) (shirá) f. Hindi: काव्य (hi) (kāvy) m., कविता (hi) (kavitā) f. Hungarian: költészet (hu) Icelandic: ljóðlist (is) Ido: poezio (io) Irish: filíocht  (ga) f. Italian: poesia (it) f. Japanese: 詩 (ja) (し, shi), 詩歌 (ja) (しいか, shiika) Kannada: ಕವನ (kn)

Karakalpak: poeziya Korean: 시 (ko) (si) (詩 (ko)) Latin: poesis (la) f. Latvian: dzeja (lv) f. Lithuanian: poèzija (lt) f. Macedonian: поезија (mk) (poezija) f. Malayalam: കവിത (ml) Nepali: कविता (ne) (kavitā) Norwegian: Bokmål: dikt, poesi, lyrikk Nynorsk: poesi (nn) Occitan: poesia (oc) f. Persian: شعر (fa) (sh'er) Polish: poezja (pl) f. Portuguese: poesia (pt) f. Romanian: poezie (ro) Russian: поэзия (ru) (poézija) f. Samogitian: puoezėjė f. Sanskrit: कविता (sa) (kavitā) Serbian: Cyrillic: песништво (sr) n. Roman: pesništvo (sr) n. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: по̀е̄зија (sh) f. Roman: pòēzija (sh) f. Slovak: poézia (sk) f. Slovene: pesništvo (sl) n. Spanish: poesía (es) f. Swedish: poesi c. Tamil: கவிதை (ta) Telugu: కవిత (te) (kavita), కవిత్వం (te) (kavitvam) Thai: กวีนิพนธ์ (th) Turkish: şiir (tr) Ukrainian: поезія (uk) (poézija) Urdu: شعر (ur) (she'r) Volapük: poedav (vo) Yiddish: דיכטונג (yi), פאעזיע (yi)

composition in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns

Catalan: poesia (ca) f. Croatian: pjȅsnīštvo (hr) n., pòēzija (hr) f. Dutch: poëzie, dichtwerk n. Greek: ποίηση (el) (pí'isi) f., έμμετρος λόγος (el) (émetros lógos) m. Hungarian: költemény (hu) Ido: poezio (io)

Japanese: 韻文 (ja) (inbun) Russian: поэзия (ru) (poézija) f. Serbian: Cyrillic: песништво (sr) n. Roman: pesništvo (sr) n.

a poet's literary production

Catalan: poesia (ca) f. Dutch: poëzie, dichtwerk n.

Greek: ποίηση (el) (pí'isi) f., ποιήματα (el) (piímata) n. pl.

poetical quality, artistic and/or artfull, which appeals or stirs the imagination

Catalan: poeticitat (ca) f. Dutch: poëzie (nl)

Greek: ποίηση (el) (pí'isi) f.

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Albanian: poezi Azeri: poeziya Bulgarian: поезия (poeziǎ) f. Esperanto: poezio Georgian: პოეზია (p‘oezia) German: Poesie, Dichtung, Dichtkunst Hebrew: שירה (shirá) f. Indonesian: puisi Italian: poesia Korean: 시 (si) Latvian: dzeja Lithuanian: poezija

Malayalam: കവിത (kavitha) Persian: چامه سرایی (čâme sarâyī) Romanian: poetică Scottish Gaelic: bàrdachd f., filidheachd f. Serbian: Cyrillic: поезија f. Latin: poezija f. Slovak: poézia f. Turkish: şıır Uyghur: erkin shéir Vietnamese: thơ Welsh: barddas Yiddish: (poezie)