->''"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."''
-->-- '''Creator/AllenGinsberg''', from ''Ginsberg, A Biography''

Pretty words.

No, really. That's what poetry is. Sometimes it rhymes, sometimes there are more line breaks than usual. All you really need to make a poem, though, is to put it together so it sounds good, or at least sounds the way you want it to sound. It is the favored form of [[Creator/AllenGinsberg revolutionaries]] and [[UsefulNotes/ElizabethI queens]], [[MediaNotes/SchoolStudyMedia professors]] and [[{{Wangst}} angsty teens]].

Poetry is one of the [[OlderThanDirt oldest]] forms of {{literature}}, and many of the [[Literature/TheSongOfRoland earliest]] [[Literature/{{Beowulf}} tales]] [[Literature/TheBible from]] [[Literature/TheOdyssey civilizations]] [[Literature/{{Ramayana}} across]] [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh the world]] are in some sort of poetic form.

Often overlaps with {{Theatre}} and Music. For tropes associated with poetry, see PoetryTropes. See also MediaNotes/PoetryForms.
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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Poetic Works]]

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* ''Literature/TheAchilleid''
* ''Literature/TheAeneid''
* ''Literature/ArchyAndMehitabel''
* ''Literature/AnnaSnegina''
* ''Literature/ArielPlath''
* ''Literature/TheAuthorsOrdeal''
* ''Literature/AutobiographyOfRed''
* ''Literature/TheBalladOfMulan''
* ''Literature/{{Batrachomyomachia}}''
* ''Literature/TheBattleOfMaldon''
* ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}''
* ''[[Literature/TheGhostOfPhilinnion The Bride of Corinth]]''
* ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales''
* ''Literature/{{Casabianca}}''
* ''Literature/CaseyAtTheBat''
* ''Literature/CatulliCarmen16''
* ''Fanfic/ACertainCrazyChristmasSpecial''
* ''Literature/ChildeRolandToTheDarkTowerCame''
* ''Literature/ChildBallads''
* ''Literature/CollectedPoems1921'' (Edwin Arlington Robinson)
* ''Literature/CollectedPoems1930'' (Creator/RobertFrost)
* ''Literature/TheCourtshipOfMilesStandish''
* ''Literature/CreationManAndTheMessiah''
* ''Literature/{{Darkness}}''
* ''Literature/{{Desiderata}}''
* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''
* ''Literature/DonJuan''
* ''Literature/DoNotGoGentleIntoThatGoodNight''
* ''Literature/DreamOfTheRood''
* ''Literature/EnochArden''
* ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh''
* Literature/TheEpicOfSundiata
* ''Literature/TheErlKing'' or ''Der Erlkönig''
* ''Literature/TheEveOfStAgnes''
* ''Literature/EveryThingOnIt''
* ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene''
* ''Literature/FallingUpSilverstein''
* ''Literature/FantasyFables''
* ''Literature/TheFigurehead''
* ''Literature/FloranteAtLaura''
* ''Literature/FlowerFairies''
* ''Literature/TheFoundationOfSFSuccess''
* ''Literature/AFurtherRange''
* ''Literature/TheGeorgics''
* ''Literature/GoblinMarket''
* "Literature/TheGhoul1873"
* "Literature/TheGhoula"
* "Literature/TheGhoulAndTheSeraph"
* ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam''
* ''Literature/TheHangman''
* ''Literature/TheHeadlessHorsemanRidesTonightMorePoemsToTroubleYourSleep''
* ''Literature/{{Heroides}}''
* ''Literature/TheHighwayman''
* ''Literature/HorrorStories''
* ''Literature/Howl1955''
* ''Literature/TheHuntingOfTheSnark''
* ''Literature/IdyllsOfTheKing''
* ''Literature/IJustMakeThemUpSee''
* ''Literature/{{Jabberwocky}}''
* ''Literature/JohnTheValiant''
* ''Literature/TheKalevala''
* ''Literature/{{Kalevipoeg}}''
* ''Literature/KublaKhan''
* ''Literature/{{Krakumal}}''
* ''Literature/KeepItInTheFamily''
* ''Literature/LadyClare''
* ''Literature/TheLadyOfShalott''
* ''Literature/LeavesOfGrass''
* ''Literature/{{Lenore}}''
* ''Literature/ALightInTheAttic''
* ''Literature/LiveorDie''
* ''[[Myth/{{Lorelei}} The Loreley]]''
* ''Theatre/{{Manfred}}'' (sort of a poem, sort of a play, sort of a short story)
* ''Literature/MaxAndMoritz''
* ''Literature/TheMetamorphoses''
* ''Literature/TheNauticalBalladOfBenBoBohns''
* ''Literature/NewHampshire''
* ''{{Literature/Nibelungenlied}}''
* ''Literature/NightmaresPoemsToTroubleYourSleep''
* ''Literature/OldPossumsBookOfPracticalCats''
* ''Literature/OneFishTwoFishRedFishBlueFish''
* ''Literature/OrlandoFurioso''
* ''Literature/OrlandoInnamorato''
* ''Literature/TheOwlAndTheNightingale''
* ''Literature/ParadiseLost''
* ''Literature/{{Parzival}}''
* ''Theatre/ThePeonyPavilion''
* ''Literature/ThePhantomShip1927''
* ''Literature/PippaPasses''
* ''Literature/PoeticEdda''
* ''Literature/PoetryPileup''
* ''Literature/PoisonedApplesPoemsForYouMyPretty''
* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/381651/the-puddle-pronker The Puddle Pronker]]'', from ''Fanfic/TheWeedverse''
* ''Literature/{{Punica}}''
* ''Literature/RainbowBridge''
* ''Literature/TheRapeOfTheLock''
* "Literature/TheRaven"
* ''Literature/RejectionSlips''
* ''Literature/ReynardTheFox''
* ''Literature/TheRimeOfTheAncientMariner''
* ''Literature/RuslanAndLudmila''
* ''Literature/TheSecondComing''
* ''Literature/TheShahnameh''
* ''Literature/SongsOfInnocenceAndOfExperience''
* ''Literature/TheSongOfRoland''
* ''Literature/TheSonneteer''
* ''Literature/SonnetsFromThePortuguese''
* ''Literature/TheSpiderAndTheFly''
* ''Literature/SpoonRiverAnthology''
* ''Literature/TheTalesOfEnsignStal''
* ''Literature/TheThebaid''
* ''Literature/TheTrojanCycle''
** ''Literature/TheIliad''
** ''Literature/TheOdyssey''
* ''Literature/TwasTheNightBeforeChristmas''
* ''Literature/TheTwelve'' by Alexandre Blok
* ''Literature/TheWildParty''
* ''Literature/TheWasteLand''
* ''Literature/WhereTheSidewalkEnds''
* ''Music/WhoPaysThePiper''
* ''Literature/WhyCantThePerfectGirlExistIn2022OrAComplaintToMyInnerLight''
* ''Literature/TheWitch1896''
* ''Literature/TheWreckOfTheHesperus''
* ''Literature/{{Zorgamazoo}}''
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[[folder:Poets]]
* Creator/JoHarveyAllen
* Creator/AnnaAkhmatova
* Creator/MayaAngelou
* Creator/MatthewArnold
* Creator/IsaacAsimov
* Creator/WHAuden
* Creator/GraemeBase
* Creator/CharlesBaudelaire
* Creator/TheBeatGeneration
** Creator/RichardBrautigan
** Creator/AllenGinsberg
* Creator/WilliamBlake
* Creator/RobertoBolano
* Creator/BertoltBrecht
* Creator/JosephBrodsky
* Creator/RobertBrowning
* Creator/CharlesBukowski
* Creator/RobertBurns
* Creator/LordByron
* Creator/LewisCarroll
* Creator/{{Catullus}}
* Creator/GeoffreyChaucer
* Creator/GKChesterton
* Creator/ErnestCline
* Creator/JeanCocteau
* Music/LeonardCohen
* Creator/SamuelTaylorColeridge
* Creator/EECummings
* Creator/EmilyDickinson
* Creator/JohnDonne
* Creator/JoseMariaEguren
* Creator/TSEliot
* Creator/RalphWaldoEmerson
* Creator/EveEwing
* Creator/RobertFrost
* Creator/LilaGaela
* Creator/FedericoGarciaLorca
* Creator/TheophileGautier
* Creator/LouiseGluck
* Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe
* Creator/AmandaGorman
* Creator/ThomasHardy
* Creator/HermannHesse
* Creator/{{Homer}}
* Creator/GerardManleyHopkins
* Creator/{{Horace}}
* Creator/AEHousman
* Creator/ErnieHudsonJr
* Creator/LangstonHughes
* Creator/TedHughes
* Creator/VictorHugo
* Creator/JohnKeats
* Creator/RudyardKipling
* Creator/HeinrichVonKleist
* Creator/PhilipLarkin
* Music/TomLehrer
* Creator/GiacomoLeopardi
* Creator/HenryWadsworthLongfellow
* Creator/AudreLorde
* Creator/JamesClarenceMangan
* Creator/ChristopherMarlowe
* Creator/AndrewMarvell
* Creator/MatsuoBasho
* Creator/JohnMilton
* Creator/GabrielaMistral
* Creator/OgdenNash
* Creator/PabloNeruda
* Creator/{{Ovid}}
* Creator/DorothyParker
* Creator/PatParker
* Creator/BanjoPaterson
* Creator/CharlesPeguy
* Creator/SylviaPlath
* Creator/DavPond
* Creator/GlennEPond
* Creator/EdgarAllanPoe
* Creator/AlexanderPope
* Creator/EzraPound
* Creator/AlexanderPushkin
* Creator/RainerMariaRilke
* Creator/ArthurRimbaud
* Creator/ChristinaRossetti
* Creator/DanteGabrielRossetti
* Creator/CarlSandburg
* Creator/{{Sappho}}
* Creator/SiegfriedSassoon
* Music/GilScottHeron
** ''Music/TheRevolutionWillNotBeTelevised'' (1974)
* Creator/DrSeuss
* Creator/AnneSexton
* Creator/WilliamShakespeare
* Creator/NtozakeShange
* Creator/PercyByssheShelley
* Creator/{{Rumi}}
* Creator/ShelSilverstein
* Music/PattiSmith
* Creator/VladimirSolovyov
* Creator/SnorriSturluson
* Creator/AlgernonCharlesSwinburne
* Creator/RabindranathTagore
* Creator/AlfredLordTennyson
* Creator/DylanThomas
* Creator/PaulVerlaine
* Creator/{{Virgil}}
* Creator/AliceWalker
* Creator/MariaElenaWalsh
* Creator/HenrikWergeland
* Creator/PhyllisWheatley
* Creator/WaltWhitman
* Creator/OscarWilde
* Creator/WilliamCarlosWilliams
* Creator/WilliamWordsworth
* Creator/WilliamButlerYeats
* Creator/TakashiYanase
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