Poetry
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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.
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Used as a euphemism for Sex. Sexy sexy sex. Particularly between Arthur and Merlin. Term is used primarily as an excuse when others catch Merlin and Arthur in the act. Rarely works as everyone knows exactly what poetry Merlin is teaching Arthur.
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Good Poetry
Indirectly stating what you mean or directly stating something that parallels what you really mean. Adding depth and making the reader use their wit through parallels in indirect examples allows for powerful connections and is characterized as poetic writing. Commonly created by patience in organization and witty connections.Cliche Poetry
Often misused and abuse by depressed teen girls (see [self proclaimed genius]) as they vent a conversation of themselves talking to about or to something that they have relationship problems with. They address the thing they have emotional conflicts with as you, spoon feed their emotions, add some rhetorical questions, repetition, sometimes end rhyme, and call it a poem. (see [venting tool]) Common themes are, you don't know me, why are you so mean, definitions of; love, death, innocense, etc., you'll cry when I die, and you'll never understand me. -
A scramble of words that may or may not make sense to the reader, but always means something to someone.
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A form of [art] that uses [language]. [Poet]s use the [beauty] of a language and its [word]s to create a feeling or convey a [message] to the [read]er, whether the wording is soft, sweet, sunny, and a lovely walk through a meadow... or clotted, ugly, grungy, and conjures up images of a [slum]. Just like [artists] use images and [color]s to create a [mood] or message, poets use words to do the same thing.
Poetry has been around for over 5,00 years and it's still young, [vibrant], and growing. Poetry might even go further into the past, since most people memorized poetry and passed it on orally; 5,000-year-old poems from [Mesopotamia] could have already been old when they were written.
The practice of memorizing poetery and passing it on by word of mouth is pretty much gone.
Humans change, but maybe their nature doesn't change very much; [practical]ly everything that could be said through poetry has already been said, often many times, albeit in different ways. Poets must be [original] and avoid any [cliché] if they want to look competent. -
Poetry (1). A highly intelectual (and in some cases also romantic) way of explaining/describing an emotion a place a situation or a person.
Poetry (2). The worst possible form of torture that you can possibly put a living creature through.
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- (noun) A feeling or an idea. A common misconseption is that poetry has to use big, complicated words and only written by the highly
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An archaic form of literature, now dying off. Doggerel.
As practiced in modern times, poetry is a discredited means of (supposedly) communicating aesthetic thoughts or feelings in verbal form. Thousands, perhaps millions of person-hours, disc/server space, and trees are wasted to develop and store this tripe.
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greater thangreater than Good Poetry
Indirectly stating what you mean or directly stating something that parallels what you really mean. Adding depth and making the reader use their wit through parallels in indirect examples allows for powerful connections and is characterized as poetic writing. Commonly created by patience in organization and witty connections.
greater thangreater than Cliche Poetry
Often misused and abuse by depressed teen girls (see [self proclaimed genius]) as they vent a conversation of themselves talking to about or to something that they have relationship problems with. They address the thing they have emotional conflicts with as you, [spoon feed] their emotions, add some rhetorical questions, repetition, sometimes end rhyme, and call it a poem. (see venting tool) Common themes are, [you dont know me], why are you so mean, definitions of; love, death, innocense, etc., youll cry when I die, and youll never understand me. -
She is one of the most independent and quiet people you’ll ever meet. She’s shy and keeps her thoughts to herself at first but once you get to know her she’s amazing, bright, and very loyal when she wants something she gets it, but most of the time she over thinks things and she usually hesitates [in the moment], She smart, talented, when she tells you something she really means it she’s kind hearted and [selfless], very very dramatic. But don’t let her [shyness] and kind heart Fool you she can be very bitchy at times, when she gets mad it takes her some time to get over the situation.
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A useless subject that is merely an [abstract art]. Forced upon kids, this [waste of time] teaches children how to [rhyme] words in a specific rhythm.
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Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature.
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poems in general as a form of literature:
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