“Re na le ditheo tsa kgopololo kwa masepaleng wa JB Marks le Greater Taung, tse di leng malala a laotswe go rebola ditirelo tse di kgatlhanong le tiriso ya diritibatsi. Re saletswe fela ke go golaganya dithapo fale le fale pele ditheo tseno di ka rebola ditirelo tsa maemo a a kwa godimo,” go rialo Mokhuduthamaga Galeng. Poetry has a long history, dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh.  Early poems evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese Shijing, or from a need to retell oral epics, as with the Sanskrit Vedas, Zoroastrian Gathas, and the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Ancient attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song and comedy. Later attempts concentrated on features such as repetition, verse form and rhyme, and emphasized the aesthetics which distinguish poetry from more objectively informative, prosaic forms of writing. From the mid-20th century, poetry has sometimes been more generally regarded as a fundamental creative act employing language.