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as in song
writing that uses rhythm, vivid language, and often rhyme to provoke an emotional response
not all poetry has to rhyme
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as in rhetoric
the art or power of speaking or writing in a forceful and convincing way
the speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King were filled with the kind of poetry that touches people of all races
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Recent Examples of poetry
Friendship is the be-all, end-all—something that songs, movies, books, and poetry hold on a pedestal above all things.
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Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 7 Mar. 2025
Featuring over fifty bookstores from across the United States, alongside essays, poetry and interviews with Kiese Laymon, Pearl Cleage, W.J. Lofton and more, Prose to the People offers an immersive journey through the history and contemporary significance of Black bookstores.
—Jameelah Nasheed, Essence, 4 Mar. 2025
Sor Juana, Founding Mother of Mexican Literature Matthew Wills
June 28, 2019
How a 17th-century nun wrote poetry, dramas, and comedies that took on the inequities and double standards women faced in society.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 3 Mar. 2025
His volumes of poetry include Afterimage (1965), a serigraphed selection featuring drawings by David Weinrib; Conch Tales (1984); the chap book Fragments (2002); and WhenThen (2018).
—News Desk, Artforum, 3 Mar. 2025
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Roya Backlund, StyleCaster, 7 Mar. 2025
Featuring over fifty bookstores from across the United States, alongside essays, poetry and interviews with Kiese Laymon, Pearl Cleage, W.J. Lofton and more, Prose to the People offers an immersive journey through the history and contemporary significance of Black bookstores.
—Jameelah Nasheed, Essence, 4 Mar. 2025
Sor Juana, Founding Mother of Mexican Literature Matthew Wills
June 28, 2019
How a 17th-century nun wrote poetry, dramas, and comedies that took on the inequities and double standards women faced in society.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 3 Mar. 2025
His volumes of poetry include Afterimage (1965), a serigraphed selection featuring drawings by David Weinrib; Conch Tales (1984); the chap book Fragments (2002); and WhenThen (2018).
—News Desk, Artforum, 3 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for poetry
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People were coming up and saying, ‘Is this really your first song?’.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
The Athletic,
14 Mar. 2025
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Yang had the honor of introducing one of her two songs, and also performing with her in several skits.—
Alli Rosenbloom,
CNN,
13 Mar. 2025
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And now, as layoffs on the federal government rise, business confidence falls, and economic forecasts weaken, Wall Street—long used to Trump's market-friendly rhetoric—is being told by the president to embrace the volatility as part of a longer-term strategy.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
11 Mar. 2025
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This marks the second week in a row that the governor invited a conservative guest onto his podcast who espoused transphobic rhetoric.—
Abby Monteil,
Them,
11 Mar. 2025
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More specifically, the poetry of survival—verse written in the shadow of political extremity.—
Alissa Quart,
TIME,
13 Mar. 2025
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With flags and a World Cup, the verses were sung as the arguments started.—
Gilles Salomone,
CNN,
11 Mar. 2025
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His plucky nickname—born from the ‘Loosey-goosey’ rhyme and shared with his father—is less of a hand-me-down and more of a savvy branding decision.—
Mike Dojc,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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Especially since Venus will retrograde in Aries next month for the first time since spring 2017 which may make this time rhyme with that time.—
Colin Bedell,
Them,
31 Jan. 2025
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Expect to use up multiple pens on this novel in verse, an elegiac meditation on poesy and religion.—
Katie Ward Beim-Esche,
The Christian Science Monitor,
23 Mar. 2018
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Andrew Lloyd Webber’s adaptation of T. S. Eliot’s feline poesy ends its Broadway revival.—
ALEXIS SOLOSKI,
New York Times,
21 Dec. 2017
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“Poetry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poetry. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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