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  2. poetry, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.

  3. poetry - Kids | Britannica Kids | Homework Help

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    Poetry is a type of literature, or artistic writing, that attempts to stir a reader’s imagination or emotions. The poet does this by carefully choosing and arranging language for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.

  4. Poetry - Form, Rhyme, Meter | Britannica

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    People nowadays who speak of form in poetry almost always mean such externals as regular measure and rhyme, and most often they mean to get rid of these in favour of the freedom they suppose must follow upon the absence of form in this limited sense.

  5. Poetry - Form, Rhyme, Meter | Britannica

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    Poetry - Form, Rhyme, Meter: People nowadays who speak of form in poetry almost always mean such externals as regular measure and rhyme, and most often they mean to get rid of these in favour of the freedom they suppose must follow upon the absence of form in this limited sense.

  6. poetry - Students | Britannica Kids | Homework Help

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    A poem is not just a compilation of words; it is words put together to create sound patterns and certain rhythms that together produce a specific effect. The sounds and rhythms are peculiar to the language, and each language has its special qualities. Poems are meant to be read aloud—that was their first use.

  7. Slam poetry is a form of performance poetry that combines elements of performance, writing, competition, and audience participation. It is performed at events called poetry slams. The name slam came from how the audience has the power to praise or, sometimes, destroy a poem.

  8. Poetry Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary

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    POETRY meaning: 1 : the writings of a poet poems; 2 : something that is very beautiful or graceful

  9. A poem written in the haiku form or a modification of it in a language other than Japanese is also called a haiku. In English the haiku composed by the Imagists were especially influential during the early 20th century.

  10. poetry summary | Britannica

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    poetry, Writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through its meaning, sound, and rhythm.

  11. Lyric, a verse or poem that is, or supposedly is, susceptible of being sung to the accompaniment of a musical instrument (in ancient times, usually a lyre) or that expresses intense personal emotion in a manner suggestive of a song.