Poetry (from the Greek "poiesis" — "ποίησις" — with a broad meaning of a "making", seen also in such terms as "hemopoiesis"; more narrowly, the making of poetry) is a form of literary art which uses the aesthetic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.
Poetry has a long history, dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. Early poems evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese Shi...
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- Firstborn ,
- A Heckuva Job: More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme ,
- Seven Notebooks: Poems ,
- The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry: From Whitman to Walcott ,
- Poems 1943-1956 ,
- Freud in Brooklyn ,
- Eireaball Spideoige ,
- Brosna ,
- Línte Liombó ,
- Tar éis mo Bháis
