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Poetry has a long-ass history, pimpin back ta tha Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. Early poems evolved from folk joints like fuckin tha Chinese Shijing, or from a need ta retell oral epics, as wit tha Sanskrit Vedas, Zoroastrian Gathas, n' tha Homeric epics, tha Iliad n' tha Odyssey fo' realz. Ancient attempts ta define poetry, like fuckin Aristotlez Poetics, focused on tha usez of speech up in rhetoric, drama, song n' comedy. Lata attempts concentrated on features like fuckin repetition, verse form n' rhyme, n' emphasized tha aesthetics which distinguish poetry from mo' objectively informative, prosaic formz of writing. From tha mid-20th century, poetry has sometimes been mo' generally regarded as a gangbangin' fundamenstrual creatizzle act employin language.