Poetry

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Poetry

Poetry is a type of literature that conveys a thought, describes a scene or tells a story in a concentrated, lyrical arrangement of words. Poems can be structured, with rhyming lines and meter, the rhythm and emphasis of a line based on syllabic beats. Poems can also be freeform, which follows no formal structure
Contemporary poetry refers to post-WW2 poetry. Some important poetry movements of contemporary poetry include Beat poetry, Confessional poetry, the New York School of poetry, postmodern poetry etc. Modernist poetry is the poetry written in the West between 1890 and 1950 under the modernist literary tradition Learn more on wikipedia

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