Literature

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 81. Chapters: Satire, Poetry, Proverb, Western canon, Prose, List of literary cycles, Perverse incentive, Anecdote, Gray literature, Comedy of menace, Film adaptation, Classic book, Literary language, Epistle, Futurism, Eye dialect, Creative writing, Thirteenth stroke of the clock, Allusion, Writing style, Prologue, Collaborative writing, Interstitial art, English major, Electronic literature, Laughter in literature, Inclusio, Umbrella title, English studies, Literary genre, Verisimilitude, Historical realism, Serial, Length of a novel, Play, Literary adaptation, Lead paragraph, Yoruba literature, Sociology of literature, Poetics, Vernacular literature, Dedication, Epigraph, Dante's Inferno Animated, Medicine Unboxed, Imagery, Epilogue, Domestic realism, Moral, International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, Confessional writing, Popular history, Aside, Foreword, Anonymous work, Proverbial phrase, Lontara, Contemporary literature, Western literature, Non-fictional character, Whitehall farce, Balanced sentence, État second, Literary element, Literary fragment, Vignette, Subliterature, Introduction, Afterword, Portrait, Nonsense word, Dual narrative, Extant literature, Paraliterature, Indie Literature, Modern literature. Excerpt: Poetry (from the 'poiesis'/p¿¿¿s¿¿ , a making: a forming, creating, or the art of poetry, or a poem) is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning. Poetry may be written independently, as discrete poems, or may occur in conjunction with other arts, as in poetic drama, hymns, lyrics, or prose poetry. It is published in dedicated magazines (the longest established being Poetry and Oxford Poetry), individual collections and wider anthologies. Poetry and discussions of it have a long history. Early attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song, and comedy. Later attempts concentrated on features such as repetition, verse form and rhyme, and emphasized the aesthetics which distinguish poetry from more objectively informative, prosaic forms of writing, such as manifestos, biographies, essays, and novels . From the mid-20th century, poetry has sometimes been more loosely defined as a fundamental creative act using language. Poetry often uses particular forms and conventions to suggest alternative meanings in the words, or to evoke emotional or sensual responses. Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and rhythm are sometimes used to achieve musical or incantatory effects. The use of ambiguity, symbolism, irony, and other stylistic elements of poetic diction often leaves a poem open to multiple interpretations. Similarly, metaphor, simile, and metonymy create a resonance between otherwise disparate images-a layering of meanings, forming connections previously not perceived. Kindred forms of resonance may exist, between individual verses, in their patterns of rhyme or rhythm. Some forms of poetry are specific to particular cultures and genres, responding to the characteristics of the language in which the poet writes. While readers accustomed to identifying poetry with Dante, Goethe, Mickiewicz an