Meaning

  1. (uncountable, usually) Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.
  2. (uncountable, usually) A poet's literary production.
  3. (figuratively, uncountable, usually) An artistic quality that appeals to or evokes the emotions, in any medium; something having such a quality.

Opposite of
prose
Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpəʊɪtɹi/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle English poetrye, poetrie, a borrowing from Old French pöeterie, pöetrie, from Medieval Latin poētria, from poēta (“poet”), from Ancient Greek ποιητής (poiētḗs, “poet; author; maker”). Displaced native Old English lēoþcræft.

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