Collocations withpoetry

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contemporary poetry
Each volume was stated to be an attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader.
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epic poetry
Later aestheticians identified three major genres: epic poetry, lyric poetry, and dramatic poetry, treating comedy and tragedy as subgenres of dramatic poetry.
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lyric poetry
Even in lyric poetry, many poets have merged the descriptive and the narrative in startling ways as part of the structure.
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lyrical poetry
Lyrical poetry, odes, pastorals, elegies, epigrams; dramatic presentations of comedy and tragedy; histories, rhetorical treatises, philosophical dialectics, and philosophical treatises all arose in this period.
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modern poetry
Rhythmic effects surface as different word order patterns in modern poetry and traditional narrative.
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oral poetry
Such "dangling" or "hanging" syntactic units are found in other oral poetry.
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poetry contest
The fourteenth-century depicts a group of craftsmen who held a poetry contest in emulation of those of the nobility.
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poetry reading
I did also interview people days later who had been at a poetry reading.
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published poetry
He debuted with his first published poetry in 1927, producing his first book of poems in 1931.
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romantic poetry
So, in literature, much of romantic poetry invited the reader to identify the protagonists with the poets themselves.
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visual poetry
Another description of visual poetry would be multimodal visual communication.
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volume of poetry
She began, early in her writing career, of alternating the publication of an autobiography and a volume of poetry.
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