poetry

literary style characterized by a strong expressiveness of words
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Summary

poetry is a literary form[1]. poetry draws 18,000 Wikipedia views per month (literary form category, ranking #5 of 42).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: academic discipline[3]
  • Subclass of: literary work[4]
  • Commons category: Poetry[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Poetry[6]
  • Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Poetry[7]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[8], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Gujin Tushu Jicheng[12], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[13], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[14], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8[16], Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[17]
  • Topic has template: Template:Poetry of different cultures and languages[18]
  • Different from: poem[19]
  • Hashtag: poetry[20]
  • Exact match: http://cv.iptc.org/newscodes/subjectcode/01010002[21]
  • Permanent duplicated item: poetic art[22]
  • Practiced by: poet[23], dichter[24], bard[25], Neoteric[26], singer[27], lyricist[28], performing artist[29]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[30], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[31]
  • Wikimedia outline: outline of poetry[32]

Body

Influence

Things named for poetry include World Poetry Day[33], a world day[34], founded in 1999[35]; Poezio[36], a XMPP client[37], founded in 2010[38]; and Poetry Glacier[39], a glacier[40].

Why It Matters

poetry has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] poetry is known by 81 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]

Entities named for poetry include World Poetry Day[33], a world day[34], founded in 1999[35]; Poezio[36], a XMPP client[37], founded in 2010[38]; and Poetry Glacier[39], a glacier[40].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  15. [17] ↑ . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . twitter.com. Retrieved . twitter.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [34] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [38] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [40] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [41] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [42] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Gsso id → 003424
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Gsso id: 003424, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/157139096|poetry (#157139096)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6077|Gender, Sex, and Sexual Or"
  2. 11d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 2602
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 2602, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7327911|poetry (#7327911)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  3. 22d ago · Treisijs · 2026-10-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 246
    Wikipedia languages → ['abstract', 'af', 'als', 'am', 'an', 'ar', 'ary', 'arz', 'as', 'ast', 'awa', 'a
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Poetry, WikiProject Literature, WikiProject Oral tradition
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Maintained by wikiproject: WikiProject Poetry"
  4. 6w ago · Rose Abrams · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Dagens nyheter topic id → poesi
    Basisklassifikation → 17.83
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Dagens nyheter topic id: poesi, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/67154538|Poesi (#67154538)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/488|DN topic]] #mix'n'match"
  5. 18w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → poetry
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: poetry, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289950547|poetry (#289950547)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  6. 19w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002266-poezie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0002266-poezie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  7. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image purged license → —
    Subclass of → —
    Image purged at → —
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007558375205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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