poemn.

Brit.

/ˈpəʊᵻm/, U.S.

/ˈpoʊ(ə)m/

Forms: late Middle English–1600s poeme, late Middle English– poem, 1500s poëme, 1600s poëm, 1600s poemme; also Scottish pre-1700 poyam, pre-1700 poyeme.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French poeme; Latin poēma.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French poeme (French poème ) piece of poetry by a classical poet (1213 in Old French), metrical composition, piece of poetry (1370), non-literary work with poetic qualities (1830; 1716 denoting a piece of prose with poetic qualities), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin poēma metrical composition, piece of poetry, poem (Plautus), also applied to prose of poetic quality < ancient Greek πόημα (4th cent. b.c.), early variant of ποίημα , thing made or created, work, poetical work, also applied to prose of poetic quality < ποιεῖν (early variant ποεῖν ) to make (see poet n.) + -μα (see -oma comb. form). Compare Italian poema (a1321), Spanish poema (c1446–7). Compare earlier poesy n.

1. A piece of writing or an oral composition, often characterized by a metrical structure, in which the expression of feelings, ideas, etc., is typically given intensity or flavour by distinctive diction, rhythm, imagery, etc.; a composition in poetry or verse.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > [noun]

yedOE

metrea1375

dittya1387

poesya1387

poemc1487

indite1501

posy1575

metro1619

pomec1820

c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica Proh. 8 Poemys [L. poesis] after myn oppynyon delyten the mynde of man with wanton pleasure.

1489 in Notes & Queries (1988) Mar. 20/2 Of hevenly poems In elect uteraunce to make memoryall!

1568 T. Howell (title) The arbor of amitie; wherin is comprised pleasant poems and pretie poesies.

1575 G. Gascoigne Certayne Notes Instr. in Posies sig. T.ij The first and most necessarie poynt that euer I founde meete to be considered in making of a delectable poeme is this, to grounde it vpon some fine inuention.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. B4^v And may not I..say that the holy Dauids Psalmes are a diuine Poem?

a1637 B. Jonson Timber 2359 in Wks. (1640) III Even one alone verse sometimes makes a perfect Poeme.

1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 184 I know how much the intervention of the Gods is necessary to an Epick Poem.

1736 T. Sheridan in J. Swift Lett. (1768) IV. 181 I have written a little pretty birth-day poem against St. Andrew's day, which..I intend for Faulkner to publish.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxvi. 575 These wars and heroes..have been celebrated in an epic poem of sixty thousand rhymed couplets, by Ferdusi, the Homer of Persia.

a1831 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 290/1 Any composition in verse, (and none that is not), is always called, whether good or bad, a Poem, by all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain.

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe & F. Schiller Xenien in tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. Notes 342 Everything in this poem is perfect, thought and expression, Rhythm: but one thing it lacks: 't is not a poem at all.

1930 O. Nash Let. 8 Dec. in Loving Lett. (1990) 125 The Elizabethan Nashe..wrote what is probably my favorite poem about spring.

1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 25 Jan. 14/4 The children..had written a rap poem.

a. A composition in prose having elements in common with a poem. Also: a prose poem.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [noun] > poem-like composition

poema1586

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. C4 Xenophon, who did imitate so excellently..the portraiture of a iust Empire vnder the name of Cyrus, (as Cicero sayth of him) made therein an absolute heroicall Poem.

1662 J. Denham Rump i. 23 All those pretty Knacks you do compose, Alas, what are they but Poems in prose?

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. Pref. p. v A comic Romance is a comic Epic-Poem in Prose; differing from Comedy, as the serious Epic from Tragedy.

1873 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera III. xxxiv. 6 Do you know what a play is? or what a poem is? or what a novel is?.. You had better first, for clearness' sake, call all the three ‘poems’, for all the three are so, when they are good, whether written in verse or prose.

1944 P. Larkin Let. 8 Feb. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 87 The book is a real prose poem, as opposed to a purple passage.

1999 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 11 July (Lifestyle section) k1 I am a prose poet, but these two women performed my poem ‘Sista!’ and they showed me out with my own words.

b. An artwork or piece of music having elements in common with a poem. See also tone poem n. at tone n. Compounds 2, picture-poem n. at picture n. Compounds 1b.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > tone poem

poema1860

symphonic poem1864

tone poem1889

tone-picture1901

a1860 T. Parker in O. B. Frothingham T. Parker 110 Sundry flowers for my picture-poem have begun to unfold.

1873 N. Amer. Rev. 116 241 Liszt, in his Symphonic Poems, has also tried to express poetical thoughts by music alone.

1902 Times 19 Aug. 7/6 Mr. Granville Bantock will conduct the first performance of his ‘orchestral poem’ The Witch of Atlantis.

1994 Classic CD June 27/2 He invented the symphonic poem, devised the concept of the rhapsody.

2005 Independent 17 Jan. (Features) Her [sc. Elisabeth Vallacott's] paintings of people are intense ‘visual poems’ of the imagination.

3. figurative. Something regarded as embodying the characteristics of a poem. Cf. poetry n. 6.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > aesthetic quality or good taste > [noun] > pleasantness to the aesthetic sense > something aesthetically pleasing

poem1642

eye music1842

aesthetics1959

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 16 He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him selfe to bee a true Poem, that is, a composition, and patterne of the best and honourablest things.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 421 There being as much continued and coherent Sence..in this Real Poem of the World, as there is in any Phantastick Poem made by men.

1843 C. Kingsley Lett. (1878) I. 108 We shall have no need to write poetry—our life will be a real poem.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits iv. 61 The Celts..gave to the seas and mountains names which are poems, and imitate the pure voices of nature.

1899 W. R. Inge Christian Mysticism 47 The world is the poem of the Word to the glory of the Father.

1915 W. Stevens Coll. Poems (1954) 238 The mind is the great poem of winter, the man, Who, to find what will suffice, Destroys romantic tenements.

1939 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn 105 Blaise Cendrars..a splendiferous hulk of a poem dedicated to the archipelago of insomnia.

1998 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 30 Apr. 4 For many, the circus is a poem in motion and a nostalgic reminder of a bygone era.

2010 P. Smith Just Kids 104 You could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.

Compounds

General attributive, as poem-book, poem-image, poem-maker, †poem-making, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > [noun] > book of poems

anthology1624

poetry-book1772

poem-book1807

verse-book1849

nonsense book1874

poetry reader1895

slim volume1920

slim vol1953

1807 R. Cumberland Mem. (ed. 2) II. 268 The public did not concern itself about the poem, or the poem-maker.

c1843 T. Carlyle Hist. Sketches (1898) 138 A small brown Poem-Book, not without merit.

1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic xlvii ‘The Royal Poet’ straightway put in type His poem-prophecy.

1938 L. Riding Coll. Poems p. xix The history of poem-writing and poem-reading is in large part a history of such corruption.

1978 Stud. Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 43 Variations of the sonnet form that offer new angles of entry into his [sc. Milton's] poem-making.

1993 Sci. Amer. Jan. 129/1 Particularly memorable is the circular poem-image by Annie Dillard mapping the wind regimes of the earth.

Derivatives

† poeming n. Obsolete the composing or reciting of poems; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > recitation of poetry > [noun]

poeming1708

poetry reading1881

poetry recital1915

1708 Brit. Apollo 26 Nov.–1 Dec. Loud Tawkings and Poemings.

1716 J. Smedley St. Patrick's Purgatory 5 Past five Years away in Poeming, Punning, Insulting, Idling [etc.]

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	poem
释义	poemn. Brit. /ˈpəʊᵻm/, U.S. /ˈpoʊ(ə)m/ Forms: late Middle English–1600s poeme, late Middle English– poem, 1500s poëme, 1600s poëm, 1600s poemme; also Scottish pre-1700 poyam, pre-1700 poyeme. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French poeme; Latin poēma. Etymology: < (i) Middle French poeme (French poème ) piece of poetry by a classical poet (1213 in Old French), metrical composition, piece of poetry (1370), non-literary work with poetic qualities (1830; 1716 denoting a piece of prose with poetic qualities), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin poēma metrical composition, piece of poetry, poem (Plautus), also applied to prose of poetic quality < ancient Greek πόημα (4th cent. b.c.), early variant of ποίημα , thing made or created, work, poetical work, also applied to prose of poetic quality < ποιεῖν (early variant ποεῖν ) to make (see poet n.) + -μα (see -oma comb. form). Compare Italian poema (a1321), Spanish poema (c1446–7). Compare earlier poesy n. 1. A piece of writing or an oral composition, often characterized by a metrical structure, in which the expression of feelings, ideas, etc., is typically given intensity or flavour by distinctive diction, rhythm, imagery, etc.; a composition in poetry or verse. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > [noun] yedOE metrea1375 dittya1387 poesya1387 poemc1487 indite1501 posy1575 metro1619 pomec1820 c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica Proh. 8 Poemys [L. poesis] after myn oppynyon delyten the mynde of man with wanton pleasure. 1489 in Notes & Queries (1988) Mar. 20/2 Of hevenly poems In elect uteraunce to make memoryall! 1568 T. Howell (title) The arbor of amitie; wherin is comprised pleasant poems and pretie poesies. 1575 G. Gascoigne Certayne Notes Instr. in Posies sig. T.ij The first and most necessarie poynt that euer I founde meete to be considered in making of a delectable poeme is this, to grounde it vpon some fine inuention. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. B4^v And may not I..say that the holy Dauids Psalmes are a diuine Poem? a1637 B. Jonson Timber 2359 in Wks. (1640) III Even one alone verse sometimes makes a perfect Poeme. 1692 tr. C. de Saint-Évremond Misc. Ess. 184 I know how much the intervention of the Gods is necessary to an Epick Poem. 1736 T. Sheridan in J. Swift Lett. (1768) IV. 181 I have written a little pretty birth-day poem against St. Andrew's day, which..I intend for Faulkner to publish. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxvi. 575 These wars and heroes..have been celebrated in an epic poem of sixty thousand rhymed couplets, by Ferdusi, the Homer of Persia. a1831 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 290/1 Any composition in verse, (and none that is not), is always called, whether good or bad, a Poem, by all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain. 1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe & F. Schiller Xenien in tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. Notes 342 Everything in this poem is perfect, thought and expression, Rhythm: but one thing it lacks: 't is not a poem at all. 1930 O. Nash Let. 8 Dec. in Loving Lett. (1990) 125 The Elizabethan Nashe..wrote what is probably my favorite poem about spring. 1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 25 Jan. 14/4 The children..had written a rap poem. 2. a. A composition in prose having elements in common with a poem. Also: a prose poem. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [noun] > poem-like composition poema1586 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. C4 Xenophon, who did imitate so excellently..the portraiture of a iust Empire vnder the name of Cyrus, (as Cicero sayth of him) made therein an absolute heroicall Poem. 1662 J. Denham Rump i. 23 All those pretty Knacks you do compose, Alas, what are they but Poems in prose? 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. Pref. p. v A comic Romance is a comic Epic-Poem in Prose; differing from Comedy, as the serious Epic from Tragedy. View more context for this quotation 1873 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera III. xxxiv. 6 Do you know what a play is? or what a poem is? or what a novel is?.. You had better first, for clearness' sake, call all the three ‘poems’, for all the three are so, when they are good, whether written in verse or prose. 1944 P. Larkin Let. 8 Feb. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 87 The book is a real prose poem, as opposed to a purple passage. 1999 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 11 July (Lifestyle section) k1 I am a prose poet, but these two women performed my poem ‘Sista!’ and they showed me out with my own words. b. An artwork or piece of music having elements in common with a poem. See also tone poem n. at tone n. Compounds 2, picture-poem n. at picture n. Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > [noun] > tone poem poema1860 symphonic poem1864 tone poem1889 tone-picture1901 a1860 T. Parker in O. B. Frothingham T. Parker 110 Sundry flowers for my picture-poem have begun to unfold. 1873 N. Amer. Rev. 116 241 Liszt, in his Symphonic Poems, has also tried to express poetical thoughts by music alone. 1902 Times 19 Aug. 7/6 Mr. Granville Bantock will conduct the first performance of his ‘orchestral poem’ The Witch of Atlantis. 1994 Classic CD June 27/2 He invented the symphonic poem, devised the concept of the rhapsody. 2005 Independent 17 Jan. (Features) Her [sc. Elisabeth Vallacott's] paintings of people are intense ‘visual poems’ of the imagination. 3. figurative. Something regarded as embodying the characteristics of a poem. Cf. poetry n. 6. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > aesthetic quality or good taste > [noun] > pleasantness to the aesthetic sense > something aesthetically pleasing poem1642 eye music1842 aesthetics1959 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 16 He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him selfe to bee a true Poem, that is, a composition, and patterne of the best and honourablest things. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 421 There being as much continued and coherent Sence..in this Real Poem of the World, as there is in any Phantastick Poem made by men. 1843 C. Kingsley Lett. (1878) I. 108 We shall have no need to write poetry—our life will be a real poem. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits iv. 61 The Celts..gave to the seas and mountains names which are poems, and imitate the pure voices of nature. 1899 W. R. Inge Christian Mysticism 47 The world is the poem of the Word to the glory of the Father. 1915 W. Stevens Coll. Poems (1954) 238 The mind is the great poem of winter, the man, Who, to find what will suffice, Destroys romantic tenements. 1939 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn 105 Blaise Cendrars..a splendiferous hulk of a poem dedicated to the archipelago of insomnia. 1998 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 30 Apr. 4 For many, the circus is a poem in motion and a nostalgic reminder of a bygone era. 2010 P. Smith Just Kids 104 You could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was. Compounds General attributive, as poem-book, poem-image, poem-maker, †poem-making, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > [noun] > book of poems anthology1624 poetry-book1772 poem-book1807 verse-book1849 nonsense book1874 poetry reader1895 slim volume1920 slim vol1953 1807 R. Cumberland Mem. (ed. 2) II. 268 The public did not concern itself about the poem, or the poem-maker. c1843 T. Carlyle Hist. Sketches (1898) 138 A small brown Poem-Book, not without merit. 1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic xlvii ‘The Royal Poet’ straightway put in type His poem-prophecy. 1938 L. Riding Coll. Poems p. xix The history of poem-writing and poem-reading is in large part a history of such corruption. 1978 Stud. Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 43 Variations of the sonnet form that offer new angles of entry into his [sc. Milton's] poem-making. 1993 Sci. Amer. Jan. 129/1 Particularly memorable is the circular poem-image by Annie Dillard mapping the wind regimes of the earth. Derivatives † poeming n. Obsolete the composing or reciting of poems; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > recitation of poetry > [noun] poeming1708 poetry reading1881 poetry recital1915 1708 Brit. Apollo 26 Nov.–1 Dec. Loud Tawkings and Poemings. 1716 J. Smedley St. Patrick's Purgatory 5 Past five Years away in Poeming, Punning, Insulting, Idling [etc.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1487
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