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Latest revision as of 01:22, 25 July 2013 English[edit] Wikipedia Alternative forms[edit] Etymology[edit] From French poetrie, from Latin poetria, from Ancient Greek ποίησις (poiesis, "poetry"), from ποιέω (poieō, "I make, do, create"). Pronunciation[edit] poetry (usually uncountable; plural poetries) - The class of literature comprising poems.
- Composition in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns.
- A poet's literary production
- 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[edit] Synonyms[edit] Antonyms[edit] Related terms[edit] Translations[edit] 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 (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 (zh-min-nan) (koa-si) , 詩歌 (zh-min-nan) (si-koa)
- Wu: trad. 詩, simpl. 诗
- Corsican: puesia (co)
- 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)
- German: Poesie (de) f, Gedichte (de) n, Dichtkunst (de) f
- 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) (kavana)
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composition in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns a poet's literary production poetical quality, artistic and/or artfull, which appeals or stirs the imagination - The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
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