poetry

poetry
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(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, description.
2. poem, ode, epode, idyl, lyric; accentual or quantitative verse; blank verse, free verse, vers libre; eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, georgic, dithyramb, anacreontic; carmen figuraturum; [Petrarchan or Shakespearean] sonnet, ode, monody, elegy, prothalamion, epithalamium; haiku, tanka; epic, epos, dramatic poetry, lyric poetry, melic poetry, concrete poetry; light verse, clerihew, comic verse, Hudibrastic verse, limerick, vers de société, occasional verse; flyting; nursery rhyme. See writing, description.
3. (poetry for music) song, chanson [de geste], ballad, lay, roundelay, rondeau, rondo, roundel, ballade, villanelle, triolet, pantun, madrigal, canzonet, sirvente; lullaby; nursery rhymes; popular song. See music.
4. (bad poetry) doggerel, jingle, purple patches, macaronics.
5. (poetic techniques) canto, stanza, stich, verse, line; couplet, heroic couplets, elegiac, triplet, quatrain, octave, octet, passus, sestina; strophe, antistrophe; [masculine, feminine, single, double, or triple] rhyme, rime, assonance, alliteration; kenning; [common] meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, [sprung, falling, or rising] rhythm; accentuation, stress, ictus, arsis, thesis; iamb[ic], dipody, trimeter, dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest, pyrrhic; hexameter, pentameter, etc.
6. poet, poet laureate; bard, lyrist, skald, troubadour, trouvère, minstrel, minnesinger, meistersinger, goliard; versifier, poetaster; metaphrast. See
Verbs — poetize, sing, versify, make verses; rhyme; scan.
Adjectives — poetic[al], lyric; epic, heroic, bucolic, etc.; lofty, sublime, eloquent.
Quotations — Poetry is eloquent painting (Simonides), All poets are mad (Robert Burton), That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith (Samuel Taylor Coleridge), Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world (Percy Bysshe Shelley), Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits (Carl Sandburg), A poem should not mean but be (Archibald MacLeish), Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo (Don Marquis), Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood (T. S. Eliot), If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all (John Keats).
Antonyms, see writing, description.
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(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. poem, paean, song, versification, metrical composition, rime, rhyme, poesy, stanza, rhythmical composition, poetical writings; see also verse 1 .
Types of poetry include: idyllic, lyric, pastoral, epic, heroic, dramatic, erotic, elegiac, ballad, narrative, symbolic, light, humorous, satiric, didactic. Forms of poetry include: sonnet, Shakespearean sonnet, Italian sonnet, Miltonic sonnet, Wordsworthian sonnet; Chaucerian stanza, Spenserian stanza; heroic couplet, rocking-horse couplet*, Alexandrine, iambic pentameter, rhyme royal, ottava rima, couplet, triplet, sextet, septet, octet, distich, ode, epode, triolet, rondeau, rondel, rondelet, tanka, haiku, kyrielle, quatrain, quinzain, ballad, sestine, sloka, triad, gazel, shaped whimsey, villanelle, limerick, parody; blank verse, free verse, stop-short, stichic verse, strophic verse, stanzaic verse, accentual verse, alliterative verse.
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
verse, rhyme, poems, song, composition, balladry. ''Vocal painting.''—Simon-ides. ''The impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.''—Maxwell Bodenheim. ''Talking on tiptoe.''—George Meredith. ''Life distilled.''—Gwendolyn Brooks. ''The best words in their best order.''—Samuel Taylor Coleridge. see poem
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. A poetic work or poetic works: poem, poesy, rhyme, verse. See WORDS. 2. Something likened to poetry, as in form or style: lyricism, poem. See STYLE, WORDS.

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