Example sentences for: poetic

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

  • Product in this collective sense, used without an article, has none of the quantitative, formative, or even poetic associations that the word had otherwise acquired--as in "gross national product," "a product of Groton and Harvard," or "the fruit and product of his labors past" (Dryden).

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

  • A Mexican tradition of the late nineteenth century was the publication of a poetic broadside that was called a calavera.

  • They are written in the light, teary, lovely style of 19 th -century French song--the style that you can see in a little pastoral love poem of Hugo's, with the singer and pianist joined by Philippa Davies on flute, by clicking . The songs convey some of the orderliness and purity of Hugo's poetic imagination, his unflappable fluency, his verse structures varying with perfect control, as if every possible variation on rhythmic and melodic order lay easily within his grasp--as in, for instance, the opening bars that you can hear by clicking .

  • The explosive tension of the epigram serves to focus consciousness, while the opennness of poetic imagery serves to dilate consciousness.


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