poetry

Meaning

Noun

• Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.
• A poet's literary production.
• An artistic quality that appeals to or evokes the emotions, in any medium; something having such a quality.

Origin

• From Middle English poetrye, poetrie, a borrowing from Old French pöeterie, pöetrie, from Medieval Latin poētria, from poēta, from Ancient Greek ποιητής ("poet; author; maker"). Displaced native .