| Poetry 1. (n.) The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression. 2. (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. Thesaurus Entries Apollo, Apollo Musagetes, Bragi, Calliope, Castilian Spring, Erato, Euterpe, Helicon, Hippocrene, Muse, Parnassus, Pierian Spring, Pierides, Polyhymnia, afflatus, creative imagination, ease, elegance, facility, fire of genius, flow, fluency, grace, gracefulness, inspiration, metrics, poesy, poetic genius, rhyme, rune, smoothness, song, the Muses, verse, versification |