What's a Poem?
Definitions from the WWWebster Dictionary
Main Entry: po-et-ry
Pronunciation: 'pO-&-trE, -i-trE also 'po(-)i-trE
Function: noun
Date: 14th century
1 a: metrical writing : VERSEb: the productions of a poet : POEMS
2: writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm
3 a: something likened to poetry especially in beauty of expression b: poetic quality or aspect <the poetry of dance>
Main Entry: po-em
Pronunciation: 'pO-&m, -im, 'pOm also 'po(-)im, 'pO-"em
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French poeme, from Latinpoema,from Greek poiEma, from poiein
Date: 15th century
1: a composition in verse
2: something suggesting a poem (as in expressiveness, lyricism, or formal grace) <the house we stayed in... was itself a poem -- H. J. Laski>
Main Entry: prose poem
Function: noun
Date: 1842
: a composition in prose that has some of the qualities of a poem
- prose poetnoun
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