Example sentences for: poetry

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

  • Homer wrote his epic works on Chios; and lyrical poetry was much admired, particularly the work of the poets Archilochos on Paros and Sappho on Lesvos.

  • I was reminded of the famous passage where Marx writes that in the Communist future, every worker will spend part of his day fishing, part writing poetry, and only part working at his lathe.

  • Hawi, a Christian from Mount Lebanon turned big-city academic whose often political poetry had once made him an Arab nationalist hero, despaired over the wider Arab world's abandonment of his beloved Lebanon.

  • Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky is Slate's poetry editor .]

  • Rancheras express the poetry of the masses.


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