Art & MusicGreek → English
Poetry
/ˈpoʊətri/
Literary work in which language is chosen for its beauty and rhythm.
The Greek roots
ποίησις
poíēsis
a making, creation
Literally: “the act of making”
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The story of the word
A poet was quite literally a 'maker'. Poíēsis meant creation itself before it came to mean crafted verse.
The same roots elsewhere
Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.
In a sentence
He filled notebooks with poetry no one else read.