poetry
60
2.4
- noun
- /ˈpoʊətri/
- Literature
:
poesía
- To not care about others means that you miss the poetry of human relationships.
And OK, maybe food is kind of like poetry, but how?
- And OK, maybe food is kind of like poetry, but how?
- But there's so much beauty and poetry and elegance in that.
- I think there is such a poetry and joy.
- And there's such a poetry to this film.
- We jump and we create with poetry in our heart.
- I mean that he's he's he's riffing on on the poetry of of compost.
- To not care about others means that you miss the poetry of human relationships.
- There's so much poetry in this and and mathematics.
- And she said poetry is extraordinary language.
- I like poetry because poetry to me is is like the subconscious.
- But also, you know, we, we like to balance ourselves with poetry, with art.
- He's like, I don't know, it's poetry, OK, that's cool.
- It's like all of it is a, is poetry.
- And then it is just like this jet stream of poetry bullshit in the description.
Examples
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Code is everything I thought poetry was back when we were in school.
Fiction book (2000) -
There is no poetry in money either.
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But poetry, love poetry, these are the things we stay alive for.
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And OK, maybe food is kind of like poetry, but how?
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I begin to understand a little about the special sense of poetry the language offers.
Academic text (1998) -
I wish only that I had the gift of poetry to say all I'm thinking.
Fiction book (1991) -
And there's such a poetry to this film.
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But there's so much beauty and poetry and elegance in that.
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He was writing a kind of poetry that people hadn't heard before.
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Many students find that reading poetry helps them appreciate the beauty of language.
Synonyms
77
3.9
Writing with a regular rhythm that often rhymes
Idioms
Compounds
- Literature
Poems written in Old English, like Beowulf, from the 7th to 11th centuries
How Poetic
- Literature
60
2.4
- Literature
4
7.5
- Literature
2
4.1
1
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word poetry comes from the Greek verb poiein, 'to make', and is the same root as poet and poem. A helpful way to remember this sense is to think of 'poetry' as something carefully 'made' to be beautiful or to move your feelings, which is why we call a moving speech or action 'poetry'.