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    Alfanuari 19019002

    Basic Poetry

    Week 1

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    Poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language, such as
    phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the
    prosaic ostensible meaning.

    Poetry has a long history, dating back to prehistorical times with the creation of hunting poetry in
    Africa, and panegyric and elegiac court poetry were developed extensively throughout the
    history of the empires of the Nile, Niger and Volta river valleys. Some of the earliest written
    poetry in Africa can be found among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BC,
    while the Epic of Sundiata is one of the most well-known examples of griot court poetry.

    The earliest Western Asian epic poetry, the Epic of Gilgamesh, was written in Sumerian. Early
    poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese Shijing, or from a
    need to retell oral epics, as with the Sanskrit Vedas, Zoroastrian Gathas, and the Homeric epics,
    the Iliad and the Odyssey.

    Ancient Greek attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of
    speech in rhetoric, drama, song and comedy. Later attempts concentrated on features such as
    repetition, verse form and rhyme, and emphasized the aesthetics which distinguish poetry from
    more objectively informative, prosaic forms of writing.

    Poetry uses forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretation to words, or to evoke
    emotive responses. Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhythm are
    sometimes used to achieve musical or incantatory effects. The use of ambiguity, symbolism,
    irony and other stylistic elements of poetic diction often leaves a poem open to multiple
    interpretations. 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.
    Kindred forms of resonance may exist, between individual verses, in their patterns of rhyme or
    rhythm. Some poetry types are specific to particular cultures and genres and respond to
    characteristics of the language in which the poet writes. Readers accustomed to identifying
    poetry with Dante, Goethe, Mickiewicz and Rumi may think of it as written in lines based on
    rhyme and regular meter; there are, however, traditions, such as Biblical poetry, that use other
    means to create rhythm and euphony.

    Much modern poetry reflects a critique of poetic tradition, playing with and testing, among other
    things, the principle of euphony itself, sometimes altogether forgoing rhyme or set rhythm. In
    today's increasingly globalized world, poets often adapt forms, styles and techniques from
    diverse cultures and languages.

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