Poetry
- In poetry analysis, a type of poetry that exhibits regular structure, such as meter or a rhyming pattern;
- Trobar clus, an allusive and obscure style adopted by some 12th-century troubadours.
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Famous quotes containing the word poetry:
“As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“A poet’s object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.”
—Aristotle (384–323 B.C.)