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Ads by Google      ipedia.com: Poetry Article Poetry is also often closely identified with liturgy in these societies, as the formal nature of poetry makes it easier to remember priestly incantations or prophecies. Because of its nature of emphasising linguistic form rather than using language purely for its content, poetry is notoriously difficult to translate from one language into another. Furthermore, Classical Greek and Latin poetry did not use rhyme. http://www.ipedia.com/poetry_1.html      Poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Greek and Latin poetry did not use rhyme. Alliteration played a key role in structuring early Germanic and English forms of poetry (called Alliterative verse), akin to the role of rhyme in later European poetry. The alliterative patterns of early Germanic poetry and the rhyme schemes of Modern European poetry alike both include meter as a key part of their structure which determines when the listener expects instances rhyme or alliteration to occur. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry      Verse drama and dramatic verse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dramatic poetry is any poetry that uses the discourse of the characters involved to tell a story or portray a situation. The major types of dramatic poetry are those already discussed, to be found in plays written for the theatre, and libretti. Dramatic verse began to decline in popularity in the nineteenth century, when the prosaic and conversational styles of playwrights such as Henrik Ibsen became more prevalent, and were adapted in English by George Bernard Shaw. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramatic_poetry   (601 words)      English poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia English Renaissance poetry after the Elizabethan poetry can be seen as belonging to one of three strains; the Metaphysical poets, the Cavalier poets and the school of Spenser. The oldest poetry written in the area currently known as England was composed in Old English, a precursor to the English language that is not something a typical modern English-speaker could be expected to be able to read. The British Poetry Revival was a wide-reaching collection of groupings and subgroupings that embraces performance, sound and concrete poetry as well as the legacy of Pound, Jones, MacDiarmid, Loy and Bunting, the Objectivist poets, the Beats and the Black Mountain poets, among others. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_poetry   (4878 words)      Poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Poetry is often referred to as its own literary genre, alongside drama, prose non-fiction, and prose fiction. Many of the scriptures currently held to be sacred by contemporary religious traditions with their roots in antiquity were composed as poetry rather than prose to aid memorization and help guarantee the accuracy of oral transmission in pre-literate societies. The alliterative patterns of early Germanic poetry and the rhyme schemes of Modern European poetry include meter as a key part of their structure, which determines when the listener expects instances of rhyme or alliteration to occur. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry   (1652 words)      Poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is traditionally a written art form (although there is also an ancient and modern poetry which relies mainly upon oral or pictorial representations) in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. Many of the scriptures currently held to be sacred by contemporary religious traditions with their roots in antiquity were composed as poetry rather than prose to aid memorization and help guarantee the accuracy of oral transmission in pre-literate societies. The increased emphasis on the aesthetics of language and the deliberate use of features such as repetition, meter and rhyme, are what are commonly used to distinguish poetry from prose, but debates over such distinctions still persist, while the issue is confounded by such forms as prose poetry and poetic prose. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry   (1621 words)      The Augustan Age Dryden forms the link between Restoration and Augustan literature; although he wrote ribald comedies in the Restoration vein, his verse satires were highly admired by the generation of poets who followed him, and his writings on literature were very much in a neoclassical spirit. This 'nature' of the Augustans, however, was not the wild, spiritual nature the romantic poets would later idealize, but nature as derived from classical theory: a rational and comprehensible moral order in the universe, demonstrating God's providential design. The English novel was a product of several differing literary traditions, among them the French romance, the Spanish picaresque tale and novella, and such earlier prose models in English as John Lyly's Euphues (1579), Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia (1590) and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1684). http://www.ruthnestvold.com/Augustan.htm   (1621 words)      Poetry - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch Poetry is also often closely identified with liturgy in these societies, as the formal nature of poetry makes it easier to remember priestly incantations or prophecies. The alliterative patterns of early Germanic poetry and the rhyme schemes of Modern European poetry alike both include meter as a key part of their structure which determines when the listener expects instances of rhyme or alliteration to occur. Because of its nature of emphasising linguistic form rather than using language purely for its content, poetry is notoriously difficult to translate from one language into another. http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/poetry.htm   (1621 words)      Poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Poetry (from Ancient Greek: ποιέω/ποιῶ (poiéo/poió) = I create) is traditionally a written art form (although there is also an ancient and modern poetry which relies mainly upon oral or pictorial representations) in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. Many of the scriptures currently held to be sacred by contemporary religious traditions with their roots in antiquity were composed as poetry rather than prose to aid memorization and help guarantee the accuracy of oral transmission in pre-literate societies. The increased emphasis on the aesthetics of language and the deliberate use of features such as repetition, meter and rhyme, are what are commonly used to distinguish poetry from prose, but debates over such distinctions still persist, while the issue is confounded by such forms as prose poetry and poetic prose. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry   (1712 words)      Mihai Eminescu Romanian poetry to W.W.II Romanian poetry in the first half of the nineteenth century assimilated the classicism and romanticism of contemporary Europe: Dimitrie Bolintineanu, Grigore Alexandrescu and Vasile Alecsandri. A peculiarity of Romanian poetry is its language, which is a Romance language, close to classical Latin but with some Slavonic words. But the more liberal 1960s saw a return to the diversity for which Romanian poetry is famous. http://www.poetry-portal.com/poets29.html   (1712 words)      Poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Poetry (ancient Greek: ποιεω (poieo) = I create) is traditionally a written art form (although there is also an ancient and modern poetry which relies mainly upon oral or pictorial representations) in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. Many of the scriptures currently held to be sacred by contemporary religious traditions with their roots in antiquity were composed as poetry rather than prose to aid memorization and help guarantee the accuracy of oral transmission in pre-literate societies. The increased emphasis on the aesthetics of language and the deliberate use of features such as repetition, meter and rhyme, are what are commonly used to distinguish poetry from prose, but debates over such distinctions still persist, while the issue is confounded by such forms as prose poetry and poetic prose. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry   (1640 words)      Canadian poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Canadian poetry is poetry written in Canada, by Canadians. His poetry and that of his follower Louis Fréchette are romantic of form and patriotic in inspiration. Octave Crémazie is considered the father of French Canadian poetry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_poetry   (993 words)      Literary Encyclopedia: Parnell, Thomas According to this Parnell “was ever much elated or depressed, and his whole life spent in agony or rapture”, though this turbulence of spirit was largely hidden from his companions, who regarded him as uniformly amiable, and scarcely appears at all in the poetry. Parnell's works were included in standard canonical series throughout the nineteenth century, but the slightness of his known oeuvre was not sufficient to save him from the eclipse which befell Augustan poetry in the Victorian period. The greater part of the poetry by which he was known was published by Pope in a select edition of Poems on Several Occasions (dated 1722, but actually published 7 December 1721). http://www.literaryencyclopedia.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5005   (993 words)      Irish poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia They also represent the early stages of the second tradition of Irish poetry, that of poetry in the English language, as they were written in Middle English. Verse tales of Fionn and the Fianna, sometimes known as Ossianic poetry, were extremely common in Ireland and Scotland throughout this period. John Hewitt (1907–1987), whom many consider to be the founding father of Northern Irish poetry, also came from a rural background but lived in Belfast and was amongst the first Irish poets to write of the sense of alienation that many at this time felt from both their original rural and new urban homes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_poetry   (993 words)      Japanese literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Although Japanese literature and Japanese authors are perhaps not as well known in the west as those in the European and American canons, Japan possesses an ancient and rich literary tradition that draws upon a millennium and a half of written records. The Tale of Genji (early 11th century) by Murasaki Shikibu is considered the preeminent masterpiece of Heian fiction and an early example of a work of fiction in the form of a novel. Japanese Literature is generally divided into three main periods: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_literature   (2048 words)      Meter (poetry) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Also important in Greek and Latin poetry is the dactylic pentameter. Marianne Moore went even further than Jeffers, openly declaring her poetry was written in syllabic form, and wholly denying meter. Inversion: when a foot of poetry is reversed with respect to the general meter of a poem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter_(poetry)   (2372 words)      Japanese poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia It is an original work, not a translated piece of Japanese literature, but reading it will give you a grasp of the scope of Japanese poetry and more insight into the problems of translation than may be found in less transparent books. This is the oldest waka (poem written in Japanese) and hence poetry was later praised as having been founded by a kami, a divine creation. When Japanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry, it was at its peak in the Tang dynasty and Japanese poets were totally fascinated. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_poetry   (3513 words)      Literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Poetry perhaps pre-dates other forms of literature: early known examples include the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh (dated from around 3000 B.C.), parts of the Bible, and the surviving works of Homer (the Iliad and the Odyssey). Typically though, poetry as a form of literature makes some significant use of the formal properties of the words it uses — the properties attached to the written or spoken form of the words, rather than to their meaning. Perhaps the most paradigmatic style of English poetry, blank verse, as exemplified in works by Shakespeare and by Milton, consists of unrhymed iambic pentameters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature   (3513 words)      Poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Poetry (from Ancient Greek: ποιέω/ποιῶ (poiéo/poió) = I create) is traditionally a written art form (although there is also an ancient and modern poetry which relies mainly upon oral or pictorial representations) in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. The increased emphasis on the aesthetics of language and the deliberate use of features such as repetition, meter and rhyme, are what are commonly used to distinguish poetry from prose, but debates over such distinctions still persist, while the issue is confounded by such forms as prose poetry and poetic prose. Many of the scriptures currently held to be sacred by contemporary religious traditions with their roots in antiquity were composed as poetry rather than prose to aid memorization and help guarantee the accuracy of oral transmission in pre-literate societies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry   (1712 words)      Encyclopedia: Old English poetry The Dream of the Rood is one of the earliest Christian poems in the corpus of Old English poetry and an intriguing example of the genre of dream poetry. Old English poetry is based upon one system of verse construction which was used for all poems. Old English poetry, along with other early Germanic literatures, often seeks to recast the tales of Christianity into the older heroic ethos. http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Old-English-poetry   (2144 words)      Verse: Poetry Anthologies and Thousands of Poems. Bartleby.com This partial collection of Shelley’s poetry reveals his philosophy, a combination of belief in the power of human love and reason, and faith in the perfectibility and ultimate progress of man. At times violent, always honest, Sassoon’s poetry expresses his conviction of the brutality and waste of war in grim, forceful, realistic verse. This anthology of 176 works ranges from the epic ballads of the Middle Ages to lyrics familiar to this day. http://www.bartleby.com/verse   (1007 words)      BIGpedia - Poetry - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online Poetry is also often closely identified with liturgy in these societies, as the formal nature of poetry makes it easier to remember priestly incantations or prophecies. The alliterative patterns of early Germanic poetry and the rhyme schemes of Modern European poetry alike both include meter as a key part of their structure, which determines when the listener expects instances of rhyme or alliteration to occur. Alliteration played a key role in structuring early Germanic and English forms of poetry (called alliterative verse), akin to the role of rhyme in later European poetry. http://www.bigpedia.com/encyclopedia/Poem   (1733 words)      MSN Encarta - American Literature: Poetry This flourishing of African American poetry that resulted was reminiscent of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and early 1930s, when Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, Jean Toomer, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Sterling Brown, Arna Bontemps, Melvin Tolson, and Jessie Fauset were all active writers. The history of American poetry is usually told as the story of great poets, from Anne Bradstreet through William Cullen Bryant, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, T. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and Robert Frost. Olson developed a theory of poetry called projective verse, which called for poets to return to an organic basis for their form, to a poetic line controlled by the physiology of the poet's breathing instead of by pre-set meter. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761596671_3/American_poetry.html   (1733 words)      Limerick (poetry) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A limerick is a short, often humorous and ribald poem developed to a very specific structure. Although limericks have been written in a great number of different languages, many of these suffer from the fact that the meter of the limerick does not adapt well to such languages as, for example, French or Latin. There is a sub-genre of poems that take the twist of the Limerick and apply it to the Limerick itself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_(poetry)   (1425 words)      Australian literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Early popular works tended to be of the 'ripping yarn' variety, telling tales of derring-do against the new frontier of the Australian outback. Two poets who vie for the position of greatest Australian poet are Christopher Brennan and Adam Lindsay Gordon. Clavell was also a successful screenwriter and along with such writers as Thomas Keneally, who wrote Schindler's Ark (the book Schindler's List is based on), have expanded the topics of Australian literature far beyond that one country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_literature   (1108 words)      Nonsense verse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nonsense verse is a form of poetry, normally composed for humorous effect, which is intentionally and overtly paradoxical, silly, witty, whimsical or just plain strange. Nonsense verse in this sense should be distinguished from humorous verse or from verse that is nonsensical but intended as parody of modernist verse, such as the poems by the fictitious Ern Malley. Among writers in English noted for nonsense verse are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsense_verse   (1108 words)      Poetry of War Owen (biography, war poems) and Siegfried Sassoon are two leading poetic chroniclers of the horrors of World War I. For more contemporary work, see the poetry and stories of Israeli author Elisha Porat. Where war is concerned, poetry is certainly not the whole answer; it may not even be part of the answer; but it may help to form part of the right question. As long as poetry survives and flourishes, there is hope that future minds and hearts may be differently disposed to war. http://www.winningwriters.com/resources/poetryofwar.htm   (1108 words)      Poetry Poetry Poetry is an translate from one language into another. English poetry The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the English. Old English poetry Old English poetry is based upon one system of verse construction which was used for all poems. http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/topics/poetry.html   (1108 words)      POETRY - LoveToKnow Article on POETRY Of epic poetry he declared emphatically that it produces its imitations either by mere articulate words or by metre superadded. But mere dr~ exactitude of imitation is not for poetry but for loosened speech Hence, most of the so-called poetry of Hesiod is not poetrl at all. With regard to poetry as an art, most of the great poems of the world are dealt with elsewhere in this work, either in connection with the names of the writers or with the various literatures to which they belong; consequently these remarks must be confined to general principles. http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PO/POETRY.htm   (14148 words)      Meter (poetry) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Prosody is sometimes used to describe poetic meter, and indicates the analysis of similar aspects of language in linguistics. Also important in Greek and Latin poetry is the dactylic pentameter. The origin of this tradition of metrics is ancient Greek poetry from Homer, Pindar, Hesiod, Sappho, and the great tragedians of Athens. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter_(poetry)   (2380 words)

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