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n. 诗, 韵文, 诗歌艺术



    poetry
    [ noun ]
    1. literature in metrical form

    2. <noun.communication>
    3. any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling

    4. <noun.communication>


    Poetry \Po"et*ry\, n. [OF. poeterie. See {Poet}.]
    1. The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the
    faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought
    and in expression.

    For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all
    human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions,
    emotions, language. --Coleridge.

    2. 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. ``The
    planetlike music of poetry.'' --Sir P. Sidney.

    She taketh most delight
    In music, instruments, and poetry. --Shak.

    1. There are lots of quotes from everybody, including poetry from a Cherokee woman and a swatch of Sufi wisdom.
    2. Reader's Garden operates the Reader's Subscription book club, which features serious fiction and nonfiction titles, classic literature and poetry, and the Garden Book Club which reaches serious gardeners.
    3. He expanded his repertoire last month after returning from a vacation that included a train ride from Chicago to Seattle during which he heard a club-car attendant recite poetry as part of his announcement he was closing the bar.
    4. Factsheet Five also publishes poetry reviews and keeps track of "cassette culture," people who record and distribute their own music.
    5. A notebook in which William Butler Yeats wrote much of his poetry and prose over three years sold at Sotheby's for $360,000, the auctioneers said.
    6. The play is given in a modern German translation which seems to avoid either the metre or phrasing of poetry.
    7. Mitchell began writing verse during long winters on the range. Like most cowboy poets, he didn't show his work to many people because poetry didn't quite fit the cowboy image.
    8. Sornberger read "Aunt Stella," "a composite of a lot of women I love." Even with an unpromising financial future from poetry, Hickman and Sornberger said they couldn't quit writing it without losing part of themselves.
    9. "The Last Days of Charles Baudelaire," a best-seller, is a fictionalized biography of the 19th century author known for the sensory imagery of his "Flowers of Evil," a poetry collection condemned in its time for obscenity.
    10. Dalgliesh has come to regard himself as the "poet who no longer writes poetry.
    11. A professor of poetry at Oxford, a poet, a Catholic, and (it would seem) once a member of a religious order (perhaps the Jesuits), Mr. Levi calls his book a "study."
    12. For example, one issue of the Procter & Gamble-sponsored Connections featured the popular rap music group Run-DMC as "hosts" of "Get Hip to Lit," about poetry and literary classics.
    13. It stars Depardieu as the long-nosed dreamer who breathes his passion and poetry into the empty head of a simple soldier to woo the beautiful Roxanne.
    14. "Ah, we were rascals then, always writing love poetry to the ladies," he recalled. "It's the rascals who enter the clergy." Young Rodrigues was a favorite of the bishop of Macao and serenaded the Jesuit teachers in a clear soprano.
    15. The strike of government workers Tuesday was a day of music, pushcart food and tear gas; of frustration, poetry readings and slogans; in all, a very Nicaraguan affair.
    16. To finance small print runs of texts such as poetry, Atlantis has begun printing translated encyclopedia and textbooks, which Czechoslovakia desperately lacks.
    17. It was coordinated by Naj Wikoff, a 38-year-old sculptor who presents more than 200 drama, dance, music and poetry performances a year at St. John the Divine.
    18. She won in 1950 for her volume of poetry "Annie Allen."
    19. He is comic and poignant at the same time, and with magnificent period costumes and sets, the film is 215 minutes of sheer poetry and pleasure.
    20. He talked about writing poetry, about writing books. It's strange that he decided to live there." Bill Blacker, a box clerk at the Chestnut Hill Post Office, said Britt came in almost daily to check the mail box he paid $11 for every six months.
    21. The company's authors include Alice Walker, Umberto Eco, Mark Helprin and Charles Simic, who won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
    22. The magazines feature prose, artwork, poetry and reviews submitted by readers, published virtually unedited.
    23. Admittedly, some of the entries have a certain lightheaded poetry to them, as does some of the rest of the book.
    24. The objective in the booklets was "to distill language and avoid poetry," he informs the group.
    25. I was becoming disillusioned about Philip Larkin after all the recent nasty revelations, but if his poetry infuriates Professor Terry Eagleton he cannot be all bad.
    26. He will receive $35,000 to give a poetry reading and a lecture during the year, to work with students and to advise Librarian of Congress James H. Billington on new library acquisitions.
    27. The Royal Ballet no longer speaks Ashton's poetry as well as it does Forsythe's rap. There sometimes seems a prettiness, an almost fatal charm, in Ashton ballets, as with the fairies in The Dream or Cinderella, or the skaters in Les Patineurs.
    28. People send family photo albums, books of their poetry, tax returns, and sexy pinups of themselves.
    29. Then Antonia Byatt's Booker-prize-winning novel Possession jolted many of us into an awareness of the fascinating psychological complexities lurking within that poetry.
    30. Willeford, who died Sunday, had spent decades writing everything from paperback fiction to poetry to an autobiographical account of war.
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