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Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [1] [2] [3] qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet.
An account of the story, was told in the Cypria, one of the poems in the Epic Cycle, which told the entire story of the Trojan War. The Cypria which is the first poem in the Cycle, describes events preceding those that occur in the Iliad, the second poem in the Cycle.
Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was a second generation modernist American poet [1] who was a link between earlier modernist figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the third generation modernist New American poets.
The name Abaddon (meaning "place of destruction") is used six times in the Old Testament, mainly as a name for one of the regions of Sheol. [75] Revelation 9:11 describes Abaddon, whose name is translated into Greek as Apollyon, meaning "the destroyer", as an angel who rules the Abyss. [76] In modern usage, Abaddon is sometimes equated with ...
The Waste Land is a poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important English-language poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line [ A ] poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's magazine The Criterion and in the United States in the November ...
a descriptive phrase used in Germanic poetry, a modern learned word from Old Norse kenning in a special sense. [152] kick Of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old Norse kikn (="bend backwards, sink at the knees") [153] kid kið (="young goat") [154] kidnap From kid + a variant of nab, both of which are of Scandinavian origin. [155] kilt
Destruction (band), a German thrash metal band; Destruction, a 1994 EP by Destruction "Destruction" (song), a 2015 song by Joywave "Destruction", a 1984 song by Loverboy featured in Giorgio Moroder’s restoration of the film Metropolis "The Destruction", a song from the 1988 musical Carrie
The effect is also known as hyperreflection or Humphrey's law [1] after English psychologist George Humphrey (1889–1966), who propounded it in 1923. As he wrote of the poem, "This is a most psychological rhyme. It contains a profound truth which is illustrated daily in the lives of all of us". The effect is the reverse of a solvitur ambulando.