Definitions for poetics

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poetics po·et·ics

Spelling: [poh-et-iks]

IPA: /poʊˈɛt ɪks/

Poetics is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 249 anagrams from letters in poetics (ceiopst).

Definitions for poetics

noun

1. literary criticism treating of the nature and laws of poetry.
2. the study of prosody.
3. a treatise on poetry.
4. (initial capital letter, italics) a treatise or collection of notes on aesthetics (4th century b.c.) by Aristotle.
5. poetics.

adjective

1. possessing the qualities or charm of poetry:
2. of or relating to a poet or poets.
3. characteristic of or befitting a poet:
4. endowed with the faculty or feeling of a poet:
5. having or showing the sensibility of a poet:
6. of or relating to poetry:
7. of the nature of or resembling poetry:
8. celebrated in poetry, as a place.
9. providing a subject for poetry.
10. of or relating to literature in verse form.

Origin of poetics

First recorded in 1720-30; See origin at poetic, -ics

Examples for poetics

"Symmetry of symmetries, all is symmetry" in the poetics of M. Brieux.

(c) Of Creative works we have only the fragmentary 'poetics.'

The younger "Edda" is not really a tale, but a book of poetics; it relates, however, the Siegfried saga briefly.

He was then writing his commentary on the poetics of Aristotle.

I am just finishing again Aristotle's "poetics," which I first read in 1856.

I have to write a theme for poetics to be handed in tomorrow morning.

Without question, the combination of visual moment with written memory reaches to the core of “Beat, Buddhist poetics” itself.

With “poetics of the Gesture,” Nahmad Contemporary proves it is a fresh face at the table.

Aristotle's poetics discusses only epic and, especially, drama.

Mary laughed his sentiment to ridicule and his poetics to scorn.