poetry > define

noun

• Literature in metrical form.
  • synonyms: poesy, verse
• Any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling. .

• (n.) Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry.
• (n.) The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.