Asian love poem quote

Poetry has been a favorite literary genre in China for thousands of years. Ten years, dead and living dim and draw apart. Lonely grave a thousand miles off, Cold thoughts, where can I talk them out? In a dream last night suddenly I was home.

Poetry derived from the Greek poiesis , "making" is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [1] [2] [3] qualities of language —such as phonaesthetics , sound symbolism , and metre —to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning. Poetry has a long history — dating back to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa , and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile , Niger , and Volta River valleys. Early poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese Shijing ; or from a need to retell oral epics, as with the Sanskrit Vedas , the Zoroastrian Gathas , and the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Ancient Greek attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle 's Poetics , focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric , drama , song , and comedy.

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