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POETICS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does poetics mean?
• POETICS (noun)
The noun POETICS has 1 sense:
1. study of poetic works
Familiarity information: POETICS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Study of poetic works
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("poetics" is a kind of...):
literary study (the humanistic study of literature)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poetics"):
metrics; prosody (the study of poetic meter and the art of versification)
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