Devices such as assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and rhythm may convey musical or incantatory effects. Poetry uses forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretations of words, or to evoke emotive responses.
Later attempts concentrated on features such as repetition, verse form, and rhyme, and emphasized the aesthetics which distinguish poetry from more objectively-informative prosaic writing.
Ancient Greek attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song, and comedy. The earliest surviving Western Asian epic poetry, the Epic of Gilgamesh, was written in Sumerian.Įarly poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese Shijing, as well as religious hymns (the Sanskrit Rigveda, the Zoroastrian Gathas, the Hurrian songs, and the Hebrew Psalms) or from a need to retell oral epics, as with the Egyptian Story of Sinuhe, the Indian epic poetry, and the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. It dates back at least to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Poetry has a long and varied history, evolving differentially across the globe. A poem is a literary composition, written by a poet, using this principle.
Poetry (derived from the Greek poiesis, "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning.
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