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  2. Oral poetry - Wikipedia

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    Oral poetry differs from oral literature in general because oral literature encompasses linguistic registers which are not considered poetry. In most oral literature, poetry is defined by the fact that it conforms to metrical rules ; examples of non-poetic oral literature in Western culture include some jokes , speeches and storytelling .

  3. List of speeches - Wikipedia

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    1932: The Bomber Will Always Get Through. a phrase used by English statesman Stanley Baldwin in a House of Commons speech, "A Fear For The Future." 1933: You Cannot Take Our Honour by Otto Wels, the only German Parliamentarian to speak against the Enabling Act , which took the power of legislation away from the Parliament and handed it to Adolf ...

  4. Oral-formulaic composition - Wikipedia

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    Magoun thought that formulaic poetry was necessarily oral in origin. That sparked a major and ongoing debate over the extent to which Old English poetry, which survives only in written form, should be seen as, in some sense, oral poetry. The oral-formulaic theory of composition has now been applied to a wide variety of languages and works.

  5. List of poetry groups and movements - Wikipedia

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    The Proletarian poetry is a genre of political poetry developed in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s that endeavored to portray class-conscious perspectives of the working-class. [64] Connected through their mutual political message that may be either explicitly Marxist or at least socialist , the poems are often aesthetically disparate.

  6. Poetry - Wikipedia

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    Later attempts concentrated on features such as repetition, verse form, and rhyme, and emphasized aesthetics which distinguish poetry from the format of more objectively-informative, academic, or typical writing, which is known as prose. Poetry uses forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretations of words, or to evoke emotive ...

  7. Outline of poetry - Wikipedia

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    One of the arts – as an art form, poetry is an outlet of human expression, that is usually influenced by culture and which in turn helps to change culture. Poetry is a physical manifestation of the internal human creative impulse. A form of literatureliterature is composition, that is, written or oral work such as books, stories, and poems.

  8. English poetry - Wikipedia

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    English Renaissance poetry after the Elizabethan poetry can be seen as belonging to one of three strains; the Metaphysical poets, the Cavalier poets and the school of Spenser. However, the boundaries between these three groups are not always clear and an individual poet could write in more than one manner.

  9. Oral-formulaic theory in Anglo-Saxon poetry - Wikipedia

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    The theory proposes that features of at least some of the poetry may be explained by positing oral-formulaic composition, meaning that poets have a store of verbal formulae which they freely recombine to form poems. While Anglo-Saxon (Old English) epic poetry may bear some resemblance to Ancient Greek epics such as the Iliad and Odyssey, the ...