poetry
US: /ˈpoʊətɹi/
UK: /pˈəʊɪtɹi/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
poetry /'pouitri/- danh từ
- thơ; nghệ thuật thơ
- chất thơ, thi vị
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun1 [U] a collection of poems; poems in general
Synonym: VERSE
epic / lyric / pastoral poetry + T.S. Eliot's poetry + a poetry reading
Compare: PROSE
2 [U, sing.] (approving) a beautiful and graceful quality: There was poetry in all her gestures.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
verse, versification, metrical composition, metrics, rhyme, Archaic poesy:
Modern poetry is often rather obscure.
Collocation
ADJ.
good, great | classical | contemporary, modern | 18th-century, etc. | dramatic, epic, heroic, lyric, narrative | Modernist, Romantic, symbolist, etc. | love, pastoral, war, etc.
QUANT.
line
He began his speech with a few lines of poetry.
| piece | anthology, book, collection, volume
VERB + POETRY
compose, write | read | recite | learn by heart
At school we had to learn a lot of poetry by heart.
POETRY + NOUN
book, collection | reading
She invited me to one of her poetry readings.
| competition, workshop | group
PREP.
in ~
an essay on imagery in poetry
Concise dictionary
poetries'pəʊɪtrɪnoun
+literature in metrical form
+any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling
