• poëtry (rare or archaic)

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊ.ɪ.tɹi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊ.ə.tɹi/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /pɵˈjɛʈ.ri/
• Hyphenation: po‧et‧ry

poetry (usually uncountable, plural poetries)

1. Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.

   Synonyms: (archaic) poesy, verse

   Antonym: prose

   • 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?‎^[1], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 263:

     More people write poetry than read it.

2. A poet's literary production.
3. (figurative) An artistic quality that appeals to or evokes the emotions, in any medium; something having such a quality.

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

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:poetry.

• Proyet, Torpey, tropey