n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)

1. Literary criticism that deals with the nature, forms, and laws of poetry.
2. A treatise on or study of poetry or aesthetics.
3. The practice of writing poetry; poetic composition.

The linguistic, literary, and theoretical resources used in representation; hence geographical poetics, which, at its most simple, has as its subject the varieties of language in which geography has been, continues to be, and ought to be, written.

poetics [poh‐et‐iks], the general principles of poetry or of literature in general, or the theoretical study of these principles. As a body of theory, poetics is concerned with the distinctive features of poetry (or literature as a whole), with its languages, forms, genres, and modes of composition. A theorist of poetry or literature may be called a poetician. See also aesthetics, criticism.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - poetik

Nederlands (Dutch)
verhandeling over poëzie, versleer, poëtische gevoelens

Français (French)
n. - poétique

Deutsch (German)
n. - Verslehre

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. pl. - ποιητική κριτική

Italiano (Italian)
poetica

Português (Portuguese)
n. pl. - poética (f)

Русский (Russian)
поэтика

Español (Spanish)
n. - poética, arte poética

Svenska (Swedish)
n. pl. - diktning

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
诗学, 诗情, 诗论

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. pl. - 詩學, 詩情, 詩論
n. - 詩學, 詩情, 詩論

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 시학, 운율학

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 詩論, 詩学, 詩的感情, 韻律学

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الجمع) فن الشعر, فن القريض, قواعد النظم‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אמנות כתיבת השירה, פואטיקה, חקר השירה וטכניקות הכתיבה שלה, ביקורת השירה, עבודת-מחקר על השירה, עבודת-מחקר או הערות על אסתטיקה‬

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