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Poetry is closely related to music because of its rhythmic nature. Many popular songs were originally poems which have been set to music, such as "America the Beautiful". Conversely, many song lyrics can be written down and enjoyed as poetry, such as in the book The Songs of Sesame Street in Poems and Pictures.

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  • Poetry is closely related to music because of its rhythmic nature. Many popular songs were originally poems which have been set to music, such as "America the Beautiful". Conversely, many song lyrics can be written down and enjoyed as poetry, such as in the book The Songs of Sesame Street in Poems and Pictures.
  • Original works of poetry, credited to author Bill Watterson are featured in Calvin and Hobbes. They have appeared in both types of syndicated strips, as well as in the original content of the book collections. Oftentimes, they are illustrated. The poems are here featured in chronological order. Unnamed poems are titled after their first known verse.
  • Both historic and original works of Poetry are welcome
  • The more modern form of poetry called renga followed the same syllabic pattern as waka, but was performed by two people. The first person performs the 5-7-5 then the second finished with the 7-7. One of the most highly regarded poets of the 12th century was Kitsune Shikitora who spent over fifty years collecting poems from across the Empire.
  • Edgar Allan Poe was not a poet.
  • Poetry is the language of dreams and is a cousin of magic. The rhythmic beat of a line of poetry is the reflection of the thundering power of the magical incantation; the incantation that works best has the rhythm and drive of good poetry.
  • Poetry is the language of the poets and the goats. And bears.
  • Rock band poetry? How would this work? 4-8 poet-singers, with clear rock & roll roots, jamming together ... e.g. a bass poet, a lead guitar poet, lyricists, with touchstones in the Grateful Dead, etc. ... and teaching, learning & jamming this online at WUaS's Rock & Roll subject - - too? Here's Harvard's Woodberry Poetry Room Online - - a WONDERFUL archive accessible from your computer ... World University & School added these to its "Poetry" - - and "Library Resources" - - wiki subjects.
  • Poems are generally meant to have meaning, so as to generate an emotional response in the listener. The type of emotion depends on what the poem is about. Poetry is not always clear on its' meanings and often recited poems are more like riddles than clear stories, leaving the person reading or listening to the poem to really focus on its' meaning, and to come up with their own interpretation.
  • "Poetry" is a song from Generation Girl Gotta Groove CD-ROM. It is Chelsie's song.
  • Poetry is a type of literature that contains symbolism in it. The Symbolist Movement grew around French poetry. It is also seen as a expression of love.
  • You can use the box below to create new pages for this mini-wiki. preload=Poetry/preload editintro=Poetry/editintro width=25
  • The writers or authors of poetry are poets. Poems do not all rhyme. Image:Nuvola apps bookcase.png This article is a stub. You can help the My English Wiki by [ expanding it]. A few starting points: A fun book of poetry for children is When We Were Very Young. One of the oldest poems is the epic The Epic of Gilgamesh.
  • Poetry was invented by Edgar Allen Poe in 1829 during America's Romantic Movement as a way for him to get chicks. The original pronunciation of the word was "Poe-try", because Poe deployed the aphrodisiac qualities of rhyming couplets to try to nail identical twins. His lifetime "bedding couplets success average" was 43 percent.
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote many poems as a girl, and continued writing them in later life. Often, she used poems she had written in her novels, especially the Emily books. In Rilla Of Ingleside, Walter writes a great poem, The Piper. This piece was written by Maud, a short, sweet piece, haunting.
  • Some notable poets are William Shakespeare (recently confirmed to have truly been a woman), Robert Frost, Homer, Oscar Wilde, John Milton, Lord Byron, Henswick Wallenfraüde, John Keats and the Pam Ayres. Livejournals and have become the mecca for contemporary poetry. Anything written about poetry is purely speculative since nobody ever reads it.
  • Pretty words. No, really. That's what poetry is. Sometimes it rhymes, sometimes there are more line breaks than usual. All you really need to make a poem, though, is to put it together so it sounds good, or at least sounds the way you want it to sound. It is the favored form of revolutionaries and queens, pretentious professors and angsty teens. Poetry is one of the oldest kinds of literature, and many of the earliest tales from civilizations across the world are in some sort of poetic form.
  • You Are Here > Research Room > Research workshop > Creative Workshop > Poetry A metaphorical poem: Life goes along, each in our journeys, The winds of fate steer us in different directions. You set the sail, you track it where it goes Avoiding storms and clouds, which may be on your way. You may meet others, crossing the same path, Board their ship, have lunch with them, But pirates come, and steal your booty one day, Just stop and rest, and find others to share, Still others do not wish to explore, They follow the gallant sails of a big ship, always listening to what it says, (where it goes) never deviating, thinking of themselves, Then again, be wise, my friend, Find your own course! Never be oblige'd, Never follow the jeweled carracks, lest you be drained, And adventures on your boat,
  • po·et·ry (p-tr) n. 1. The art or work of a poet. 2. a. Poems regarded as forming a division of literature. b. The poetic works of a given author, group, nation, or kind. 3. A piece of literature written in meter; verse. 4. Prose that resembles a poem in some respect, as in form or sound. 5. The essence or characteristic quality of a poem. 6. A quality that suggests poetry, as in grace, beauty, or harmony: the poetry of the dancer's movements. [Middle English poetrie, from Old French, from Medieval Latin potria, from Latin pota, poet; see poet.]
  • Throughout his career, John Peel included poetry and spoken word material of various types among the records and sessions in his programmes. Poetry and music have been linked since time immemorial, but in the 1950s, the combination of jazz and poetry favoured by the American Beat Generation poets (and their followers in the UK and elsewhere) had a "hip", modernist image which attracted young audiences. Then, in the 1960s, the connections between poetry and song were highlighted by the popularity of folk music. Traditional folk ballads, many of which had been discovered by collectors with a literary background, were later included in poetry anthologies, and served as a model for new songs. Contemporary, folk-influenced songwriters such as Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Leonard Cohen also publis
  • In 2258 of the alternate reality, Spock justified his hypothesis that Nero had time traveled into the past by giving the quote, "If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Leonard McCoy then sarcastically remarked, "How poetic." (Star Trek) Frustrated with Spock's uncharacteristically whimsical description of an unknown phenomenon's effects on USS Enterprise's instrument readings in 2267, James T. Kirk told him, "I want facts, not poetry." (TOS: "The Alternative Factor" )
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