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English - Poetry at Queen's University Belfast

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: languages
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Poetry
Poetry (the term derives from a variant of the Greek term, poiesis, "making") is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language—such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre—to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.
Poetry
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.
Salvatore Quasimodo, New York Times (14 May 1960).
Poetry
Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.
Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest pt. 1, LXXI.
Poetry
There is a pleasure in poetic pains
Which only poets know.
William Cowper, The Task Book II, The Timepiece, l. 285 used by William Wordsworth as the title of a poem. used by William Wordsworth as the title of a poem.
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