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What is poetry?
Poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language
What are some examples of early poems?
Epic of Gilgamesh, Shijing etc.
Who employed classification as a way to define and assess the quality of poetry?
Classical thinkers
How many major genres aestheticians identified?
epic poetry, lyric poetry, and dramatic poetry
What is treating as subgenres of dramatic poetry?
comedy and tragedy
How is the Epic of Gilgamesh related to poetry?
Poetry has a long history, dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh
Who said that?
"Poetry is an echo asking the shadow to dance"
Carl Sandburg
What is rhyme?
A rhyme is the repetition of sounds between two words, usually the sounds after the final stressed syllable of each word. Cat-hat, rotten-forgotten
On what rules to distinguish the highest-quality poetry in each genre based on?
the underlying purposes of the genre
When was Aristotle's work influential throughout the Middle East?
during the Islamic Golden Age
Since the mid-20th century poetry has been seen as?
more generally regarded as a fundamental creative act employing language
What types of emotional response are there?
Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhythm are sometimes used to achieve musical or incantatory effects
What do poets often adapt from diverse cultures and language?
forms, styles and techniques
What approach remained influential into the 20th century?
Negative Capability
How did English Romantic poet John Keats termed this escape from logic?
Negative Capability
What distinguishes poetry from prose forms of writing?
repetition, verse form and rhyme, and emphasized the aesthetics which distinguish poetry from more objectively informative, prosaic forms of writing
What did Aristotle focus on in poetry?
focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song and comedy
What do the existing fragments of Aristotle's Poetics describe?
three genres of poetry the epic, the comic, and the tragic
How did Later poets and aestheticians often distinguished poetry from and defined it?
in opposition to prose
Poetry uses forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretation to words, or to evoke
emotive responses
What is assonance?
Assonance is a resemblance in the sounds of words/syllables either between their vowels (e.g., meat, bean) or between their consonants (e.g., keep, cape).
What is onomatopoeia?
Onomatopoeia is the process of creating a word that mimics a sound and using it to describe that sound. (such as buzz, hiss)
What is a layering of meanings?
Similarly figures of speech such as metaphor, simile and metonymy create a resonance between otherwise disparate images—a layering of meanings, forming connections previously not perceived
What is an attempt to render the beautiful or sublime without the burden of engaging the logical or narrative thought process
poetry
What is metonymy?
metonymy, figure of speech in which the name of an object or concept is replaced with a word closely related to or suggested by the original, as “crown” to mean “king”