Oral poetry is a form of poetry that is composed and transmitted without the aid of writing. The complex relationships between written and spoken literature... 4 KB (537 words) - 01:17, 15 December 2023 |
Algerian literature (section Berber Oral Poetry) assume that women orally recite their poetry because they are yet too uncivilised to write down their words. In other words, female orality is its own devolutionary... 26 KB (3,529 words) - 12:24, 22 April 2024 |
the oral poetry has been practiced throughout Basotho history. The classical form of Sotho oral poetry is called ‘dithoko’. This type of Sotho poetry was... 7 KB (996 words) - 21:08, 17 January 2024 |
Poetry as an oral art form likely predates written text. The earliest poetry is believed to have been recited or sung, employed as a way of remembering... 16 KB (1,904 words) - 06:06, 26 March 2024 |
Hebrew Psalms); or from a need to retell oral epics, as with the Egyptian Story of Sinuhe, Indian epic poetry, and the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the... 107 KB (12,498 words) - 20:43, 29 April 2024 |
process by which oral poets improvise poetry the reasons for orally improvised poetry (or written poetry deriving from traditions of oral improvisation)... 10 KB (1,291 words) - 19:37, 5 March 2024 |
Spoken word (redirect from Spoken word poetry) there were printing presses, poetry is primarily oral utterance, to be said aloud, to be heard." Poetry, like music, appeals to the ear, an effect known... 22 KB (2,485 words) - 22:38, 14 April 2024 |
The originator of performance poetry, Hedwig Gorski, credits slam poetry for carrying on the poetics of ancient oral poetry designed to grab attention in... 39 KB (4,703 words) - 18:39, 12 March 2024 |
Literature (section Oral literature) fiction, drama, poetry, and including both print and digital writing. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, also... 90 KB (9,137 words) - 11:28, 22 April 2024 |
A poetry reading is a public oral recitation or performance of poetry. Reading poetry aloud allows the reader to express their own experience through... 8 KB (955 words) - 23:46, 21 February 2024 |
Bedouin (section Oral poetry) there is more rain and move their livestock to the highland pastures. Oral poetry is the most popular art form among Bedouins. Having a poet in one's tribe... 92 KB (9,857 words) - 03:03, 23 April 2024 |
from the first century BCE to the first century CE, but oral poetry is much older. Arabic poetry is categorized into two main types, rhymed or measured... 48 KB (6,305 words) - 19:09, 17 April 2024 |
Baltic Finnic peoples (section Finnic oral poetry) only Baltic Finnish people with no significant corpus of Kalevala meter oral poetry. The poetic tradition has included epic poems (known mostly in Karelia... 24 KB (2,549 words) - 20:56, 8 April 2024 |
poetic forms, spanning epic, lyrical verse, prose poems, dramatic poetry and oral poetry, composed in Caribbean territories regardless of language. It is... 19 KB (1,758 words) - 12:54, 9 April 2024 |
referred to as Rune song, Runo song, or Kalevala song, is a form of oral poetry and national epic historically practiced among the Baltic Finnic peoples... 4 KB (454 words) - 06:15, 11 January 2024 |
Iliad and Odyssey). An epic is not limited to the traditional medium of oral poetry, but has expanded to include modern mediums including film, theater,... 17 KB (2,072 words) - 01:29, 6 April 2024 |
Canterbury Tales. So sagas include both incidental poetry and the biographies of poets. The oral tradition is the predecessor of essentially all other... 7 KB (758 words) - 14:11, 26 April 2024 |
Finnegan, Ruth H., Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance and Social Context (Cambridge, 1977) Henige, D.P., The Chronology of Oral Tradition: Quest for a... 5 KB (615 words) - 16:23, 21 October 2023 |
leading to Def Poetry on HBO. Performing poets-writers and especially performance poets excelled in the ability to put the event of oral literature into... 28 KB (3,748 words) - 02:36, 19 April 2024 |
predicted the importance of stress in future Finnish poetry. Finnish old folk poetry or oral poetry from the Middle Ages were epic sequences or short songs... 19 KB (2,532 words) - 23:21, 31 October 2023 |
genre of oral literature among various Bantu peoples of Southern Africa, including the Zulu and the Xhosa. While it is often considered to be poetry of praise... 3 KB (376 words) - 20:41, 20 January 2024 |
linguist, journalist, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. He is best known for synthesizing the Finnish national epic, Kalevala... 14 KB (1,319 words) - 02:30, 9 April 2024 |
kingdom of Ling (Wylie: gling). It is recorded variously in poetry and prose, through oral poetry performance, and is sung widely throughout Central Asia... 50 KB (6,438 words) - 13:49, 11 March 2024 |
Folk poetry (sometimes referred to as poetry in action) is poetry that is part of a society's folklore, usually part of their oral tradition. When sung... 4 KB (445 words) - 18:13, 10 January 2024 |
Kalevala, where his character is a composite of several separate heroes of oral poetry. He is usually depicted as young and good-looking, with wavy red hair... 8 KB (865 words) - 08:09, 18 April 2024 |
Oral-formulaic theory in Anglo-Saxon poetry refers to the application of the hypotheses of Milman Parry and Albert Lord on the Homeric Question to verse... 8 KB (1,215 words) - 15:00, 18 October 2023 |