po‧et‧ry W3 / pəʊətri, pəʊɪtri $ poʊ- / 名词 [不可数名词]

1 poems in general, or the art of writing them → poem , poet :

He reads a lot of poetry.

a poetry magazine

modern/lyric/love etc poetry

a selection of religious poetry

2 a quality of beauty, gracefulness, and deep feeling

pure/sheer poetry

The way she moves on the court is sheer poetry.

His golf swing is poetry in motion .

COLLOCATIONS

动词

write poetry I didn’t know you wrote poetry.

learn poetry He made us learn a lot of poetry by heart.

recite poetry (= say it to people from memory ) Occasionally, my father would recite the poetry of Baudelaire.

短语

a piece of poetry We had to memorize a piece of poetry.

a line of poetry She often quoted lines of poetry.

a book/volume/collection of poetry He had two books of poetry published.

poetry + NOUN

a poetry reading (= when poems are read to people, usually by the writer ) I used to like giving poetry readings.

a poetry book He has just brought out another poetry book.

a poetry anthology (= a book of poems by different people ) a poetry anthology containing work by modern Liverpool poets

形容词

English/French/Greek etc poetry He was a student of English poetry.

modern/contemporary poetry She finds modern poetry difficult.

THESAURUS

poems

poetry poems in general, or the art of writing them : He reads a lot of poetry. | She wrote poetry and children’s stories. | a poetry book

verse words arranged in the form of poetry : a book of comic verse

anthology a set of poems by different people collected together in one book : an anthology of Caribbean poetry