Example sentences for: poetry

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

  • And I think, earlier this year, of Serbia, where the bones of Prince Lazar, the martyr of the battle against the Turks in 1389, have become hallowed in history and whose legends were written down by church scribes and canonized in cycles of folk poetry.

  • poetry thread Friday, Oct. 29 at 3 p.m.

  • Research into the literary folklore of New Mexico reveals a great love of traditional poetry, and the romance is a form that flourished for over 300 years.

  • Because Plath was especially sensitive--the quality they say made her poetry great--Hughes' gallivanting belittled and destroyed her.

  • We sat together at one summer's end,That beautiful mild woman, your close friend,And you and I, and talked of poetry.I said, "A line will take us hours maybe;Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.Better go down upon your marrow-bonesAnd scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stonesLike an old pauper, in all kinds of weather;For to articulate sweet sounds togetherIs to work harder than all these, and yetBe thought an idler by the noisy setOf bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymenThe martyrs call the world."


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