poetry

The act or practice of composing poems.

Poems regarded as forming a division of literature.

The poetic works of a given author, group, nation, or kind.

Literature written in meter; verse.

Prose that resembles a poem in some respect, as in vivid imagery or rhythmic sound.

The essence or characteristic quality of a poem.

A quality that suggests poetry, as in grace, beauty, or harmony.

That one of the fine arts which addresses itself to the feelings and the imagination by the instrumentality of musical and moving words; the art which has for its object the exciting of intellectual pleasure by means of vivid, imaginative, passionate, and inspiriting language, usually though not necessarily arranged in the form of measured verse or numbers.

An imaginative, artistic, and metrical collocation of words so marshaled and attuned as to excite or control the imagination and the emotions; the language of the imagination or emotions metrically expressed.