Synonyms for poetry
ˈpoʊ ɪ tripo·et·ry

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1. poetrynoun

   Synonyms:
   poesy

   Antonyms:
   prose

2. poetrynoun

   The class of literature comprising poems.

   Synonyms:
   poesy

   Antonyms:
   prose

3. poetrynoun

   Composition in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns.

   Synonyms:
   poesy

   Antonyms:
   prose

4. poetrynoun

   A poet's literary production

   Synonyms:
   poesy

   Antonyms:
   prose

5. poetrynoun

   A 'poetical' quality, artistic and/or artfull, which appeals or stirs the imagination, in any medium

   That 'Swan Lake' choreography is poetry in motion, fitting the musical poetry of Tchaikovski's divine score well beyond the literary inspiration

   Synonyms:
   poesy

   Antonyms:
   prose

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. poetry

   Poetry is that form of literature that embodies beautiful thought, feeling, or action in melodious, rhythmical, and (usually) metrical language, in imaginative and artistic constructions. Poetry in a very wide sense may be anything that pleasingly addresses the imagination; as, the poetry of motion. In ordinary usage, poetry is both imaginative and metrical. There may be poetry without rime, but hardly without meter, or what in some languages takes its place, as the Hebrew parallelism; but poetry involves, besides the artistic form, the exercise of the fancy or imagination in a way always beautiful, often lofty or even sublime. Failing this, there may be verse, rime, and meter, but not poetry. There is much in literature that is beautiful and sublime in thought and artistic in construction, which is yet not poetry, because quite devoid of the element of song, whereby poetry differs from the most lofty, beautiful, or impassioned prose. Compare METER.

   Synonyms:
   meter, metrical composition, numbers, poem, poesy, rime, song, verse

   Antonyms:
   prosaic speech, prosaic writing, prose

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. poetry, poesy, versenoun

   literature in metrical form

   Synonyms:
   poesy, verse line, verse, rhyme

2. poetrynoun

   any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling

   Synonyms:
   poesy, verse

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1. poetrynoun

   Synonyms:
   verse, rhyme, poesy, metrical composition, numbers

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1. poetrynoun

   Synonyms:
   verse, rhyme, poems, poesy, orthometry, versification, prosody, poetics

   Antonyms:
   prose

   Associated words:
   anthology

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1. List of paraphrases for "poetry":

   poésie, poem, poetic, hair, verse, poet

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1. poetry

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1. T. S. Eliot:

   I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.

2. Oscar Auliq-Ice:

   Poetry is celebrated for its artistic and aesthetic qualities.

3. Lewis Thomas:

   The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

4. T. S. Eliot:

   Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

5. Simonides:

   Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.