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poetry

Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊ.ɪ.tɹi/

The English word “poetry” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.
  2. A poet's literary production.
  3. An artistic quality that appeals to or evokes the emotions, in any medium; something having such a quality.

Etymology

From Middle English poetrye, poetrie, a borrowing from Old French pöeterie, pöetrie, from Medieval Latin poētria, from poēta (“poet”), from Ancient Greek ποιητής (poiētḗs, “poet; author; maker”). Displaced native Old English lēoþcræft.

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