Thesaurus: poetry

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1. n. The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.
2. n. Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry.
3. n. literature in metrical form
4. n. any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling
5. 1. The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. Coleridge. 2. Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry. "The planetlike music of poetry." Sir P. Sidney. She taketh most delight In music, instruments, and poetry. Shak. POETS' CORNER Po"ets' Cor"ner. An angle in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, London; -- so called because it contains the tombs of Chaucer, Spenser, Dryden, Ben Jonson, Gray, Tennyson, Browning, and other English poets, and memorials to many buried elsewhere.
6. An angle in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, London; --so called because it contains the tombs of Chaucer, Spenser, Dryden,Ben Jonson, Gray, Tennyson, Browning, and other English poets, andmemorials to many buried elsewhere.
7. n:100 n. literature in metrical form n. any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling