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- For the American journal, see Poetry (magazine).
Poetry is an art form in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to or instead of its ostensible meaning. Poetry has a long history, and early attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the various uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song and comedy.Aristotle's Poetics, Heath (ed) (1997), further discussed below. Later attempts focused on the deliberate use of features such as repetition and rhyme and the emphasis on aesthetics to distinguish poetry from prose.See, for example, Kant's Critique of Judgment, discussed below. Contemporary poets, such as Dylan Thomas, often identify poetry not as a literary genre within a set of genres, but as a fundamental creative act using language.Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning, discussed below.
Poetry often uses condensed forms and conventions to reinforce or expand the meaning of the underlying words or to invoke emotional or sensual experiences in the reader, as well as using devices such as assonance, alliteration and rhythm to achieve musical or incantatory effects. Poetry's use of ambiguity, symbolism, irony and other stylistic elements of poetic diction often leaves a poem open to multiple interpretations.
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Counter-Attack - Site dedicated to First World War Literature, and Siegfried Sassoon in particular.
Meta Description: [ Counter-Attack web site for a major bookworm, interested in First World War Literature and History, collecting books and computers ]
David Jones - Contains a bibliography, excerpts, biography, gallery, and related links.
Dulce et Decorum Est - Complete text of Wilfred Owen's best known poem of the war.
Meta Description: [ Wilfred Owen's best known poem of the First World War - Dulce et Decorum Est ]
Edmund Blunden - Commentaries on war poems.
Focus On - Isaac Rosenberg - An extensive biography, including texts and copies of works.
Meta Description: [ Isaac Rosenberg (1890 - 1917) is one of the lesser known of the war poets, though he is considered to be one of the finest ]
John McCrae - In Flanders Fields - The sole work as published in Reading About the World, Volume 2.
Lost Poets of the Great War - Biographies of Rupert Brooke, John McCrae, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Alan Seeger, and Edward Thomas, and includes chronology of the war, the human cost, and bibliography.
Marching Men - The complete text of war verses by Helena Coleman.
Poet Hero - Isaac Rosenberg - A biography and full text of Break of Day in the Trenches.
Poetry of the First World War - An online discussion list on poetry during the war.
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Sonnets of World War I - Collection from several authors.
Sound Stage - Selection of poetic perspectives of the war with full text and audio.
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Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature - An online scholarly seminar with analysis of the works of several poets, with biographical notes, a discussion forum, and other materials.
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War Poetry - Author's lives and times with explanatory notes, social and historical information, portraits, and maps.
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Writers and Literature of The Great War - Features poetry, photography and art, as well as work that came later due to the influence of the war.
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