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
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