The Finnish national epic Kalevala, like much old Finnish poetry, is written in a variation of trochaic tetrameter.

It consists of vocal arrangements of folk and contemporary Finnish poetry.

The name is in reference to the 'back to the roots' nature of the album - Rajaton's debut album, Nova, similarly consisted of songs composed to Finnish poetry.

His vast knowledge of traditional Finnish poetry made him a definite authority in Finland and many of his inventions have stuck.

Markku Into (born 20 October 1945) is a legend of Finnish poetry and one of the main members in Finnish 1960s underground movement of Turku.

Despite this, the majority of Finnish poetry remained only in the oral tradition.

As a modernizer of the Finnish poetry, she has been generally compared to Edith Södergran.

Sibelius also wrote several tone poems based on Finnish poetry, beginning with the early En Saga and culminating in the late Tapiola (1926), his last major composition.

Along with Eino Leino in the early 20th century, he is considered as a pioneer of Finnish poetry.

March 19 - Elias Lönnrot, Finnish philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry (b. 1802).