York, United Kingdom

Poetry and Poetics

Master's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Qualification: MA
Kind of studies: part-time studies
Master of Arts (MA)
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Poetics
Poetics is the theory of literary forms and literary discourse. It may refer specifically to the theory of poetry, although some speakers use the term so broadly as to denote the concept of "theory" itself.
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
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.
Poetry
And so no force, however great,
Can strain a cord, however fine,
Into a horizontal line
That shall be absolutely straight.
William Whewell, given as an accidental instance of metre and poetry.
Poetry
Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
Henry David Thoreau, Journal (29 November 1841).
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