POETRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poetry mean? 

• POETRY (noun)
  The noun POETRY has 2 senses:

1. literature in metrical form

2. any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling

  Familiarity information: POETRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POETRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Literature in metrical form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

poesy; poetry; verse

Hypernyms ("poetry" is a kind of...):

genre; literary genre; writing style (a style of expressing yourself in writing)

Domain member category:

metrify (compose in poetic meter)

sweet; sweetly (in an affectionate or loving manner ('sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of 'sweetly'))

apace ((poetic, literary) quickly)

lyric (of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way))

scrivened (copied in handwriting)

stilly ((poetic) still or calm)

darkling ((poetic) occurring in the dark or night)

scan (conform to a metrical pattern)

sonnet (praise in a sonnet)

sonnet (compose a sonnet)

elegise; elegize (compose an elegy)

spondaise; spondaize (make spondaic)

hush; still; stillness ((poetic) tranquil silence)

poetise; poetize; verse; versify (compose verses or put into verse)

alliterate (use alliteration as a form of poetry)

tag (supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes)

rhyme; rime (compose rhymes)

relyric (write new lyrics for (a song))

lyric (write lyrics for (a song))

Erin (an early name of Ireland that is now used in poetry)

dolor; dolour ((poetry) painful grief)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poetry"):

epos (a body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme)

epic poetry; heroic poetry (poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero)

Derivation:

poetical (of or relating to poetry)

Domain member category:

wont to (in the habit of doing something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("poetry" is a kind of...):

expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)

Derivation:

poetic (characterized by romantic imagery)

poetic (characteristic of or befitting poetry)

poetic (of or relating to poetry)

poetical (characteristic of or befitting poetry)

poetical (of or relating to poetry)

 Context examples 

This achieved, she jumped from my knee and said, "Now, Mademoiselle, I will repeat you some poetry."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The Bar had no more tenderness or poetry in it, than the bar of a public-house.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He had loved poetry for beauty's sake; but since he met her the gates to the vast field of love-poetry had been opened wide.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It's very bad poetry, but I felt it when I wrote it, one day when I was very lonely, and had a good cry on a rag bag.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was a being formed in the “very poetry of nature.”

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love,” said Darcy.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

That is, I can read poetry and plays, and things of that sort, and do not dislike travels.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises on science, the others being volumes of poetry.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You may be working on an project that you are passionate about, such as one involving music, poetry, literature, sculpture, dance, or another artistic discipline.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Susan had read nothing, and Fanny longed to give her a share in her own first pleasures, and inspire a taste for the biography and poetry which she delighted in herself.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)