Example sentences for: poetic

How can you use “poetic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • So it's poetic justice that she was caught for the same reason.

  • His was, as he saw it, a continuous poetic journey, aided here and there by slaves or muses--Arthur Symons, the symbolist who introduced him to the poetry of Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé in the 1890s; Maud Gonne, who made Irish nationalism romantic; Lady Augusta Gregory, an Irish Protestant aristocrat who collaborated with Yeats in his search of old Irish folklore and legends; and Ezra Pound, who stiffened Yeats' soft "Celtic" verse with a little modernist geometry.

  • Yeats effectively shut down his Celtic dream world in 1914 with the starker, more acute verse of Responsibilities . He let the realities of Ireland's civil war invade and occupy his poetic world.

  • This appealing town really does deserve a more poetic name.

  • The same can be said of Tyndale's poetic prose.


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