An Introduction to POETRY

 The word POEM comes from the Greek word  POIEMA , meaning "a thing made."


The word POET comes from the Greek word POIETES, meaning "maker or author.

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POETRY is a type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas).

POETRY appears among the earliest records of most literate cultures, with poetic fragments found on early monoliths, rune stones and stelae.


The oldest surviving POEM is the "Epic of Gilgamesh," from the 3rd millennium BC in Sumer (in Mesopotamia, now Iraq), which was written in cuneiform script on clay tablets, and later papyrus.