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...

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process by which oral poets improvise poetry the reasons for orally improvised poetry (or written poetry deriving from traditions of oral improvisation)...

transmitted orally from one generation to another. The transmission is through speech or song and may include folktales, ballads, chants, prose or poetry. The...

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...

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...

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...

of information held by oral repositories includes lineages, oral law, mythology, oral literature and oral poetry (of which oral history is often entwined)...

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...

that the art of poetry may predate literacy, and developed from folk epics and other oral genres. Others, however, suggest that poetry did not necessarily...

traditions, poetry is transmitted to the audience and from performer to performer by purely oral means. Early 20th-century study of living oral epic traditions...

The originator of performance poetry, Hedwig Gorski, credits slam poetry for carrying on the poetics of ancient oral poetry designed to grab attention in...

Greek literature was to some degree oral in nature, and the earliest literature was completely so. Homer's epic poetry, states Michael Gagarin, was largely...

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...

only Baltic Finnish people with no significant corpus of Kalevala meter oral poetry. The poetic tradition has included epic poems (known mostly in Karelia...

Canterbury Tales. So sagas include both incidental poetry and the biographies of poets. The oral tradition is the predecessor of essentially all other...

art of poetry existed in Arabic writing in material as early as the 1st century BCE, with oral poetry likely being much older still. Arabic poetry is categorized...

A poetry reading is a public oral recitation or performance of poetry. Reading poetry aloud allows the reader to express their own experience through...

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...

roots in ancient poetry (epic poems such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey). An epic is not limited to the traditional medium of oral poetry, but has expanded...

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...

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...

poetic forms, spanning epic, lyrical verse, prose poems, dramatic poetry and oral poetry, composed in Caribbean territories regardless of language. It is...

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...

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Literature – prose, written or oral, including fiction and non-fiction, drama, and poetry. See also the Outline of poetry. Literature can be described as...

kingdom of Ling (Wylie: gling). It is recorded variously in poetry and prose, through oral poetry performance, and is sung widely throughout Central Asia...

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...

linguist, journalist, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. He is best known for synthesizing the Finnish national epic, Kalevala...

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...