poetry

     

Poetry (from the Greek "ποίησις", poiesis, a "making" or "creating") is a form of art in which language is use for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as discrete poems, or may occur in conjunction with other arts, as in poetic drama, hymns or lyrics.

Trivia about poetry

  • Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Frost remarked that this is what gets "lost in translation"
  • Literary hobby of Dr. Zhivago, whose writing got better, not "verse"
  • Shelley & Eliot would be happy to know that April is the national month for this form of writing
  • To Emily Dickinson, this genre "Makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me"
  • Founded in 1912, the magazine named for this literary genre has published Wallace Stevens & T.S. Eliot
  • Type of lit. that was the specialty of Francois Villon, Marie De France & Charles Baudelaire
  • Ironically, Marianne Moore began a poem about this literary form, "I, Too, Dislike It"
  • Wordsworth defined this form of literature as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"
  • William Wordsworth told us this form of literature "is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge"
  • Category in which Philip Levine & Wallace Stevens each won twice
  • If you have some lines by Edgar Guest in your house, it's likely they're lines of this
  • The first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, Gwendolyn Brooks won in this category in 1950
  • In 1912 Harriet Monroe launched the magazine simply called this; it soon published T.S. Eliot & Ezra Pound
  • Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize, won for this category in 1950