Example sentences for: poetry

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

  • He tells of Hitler's love of romantic poetry and "creamy Viennese cakes"--the only exceptions, apparently, to his unyielding asceticism--and speculates, in ponderous footnotes studded with citations from Kierkegaard, on the theological nature of evil.

  • The nightingale Keats heard in a garden in May 1819 was not the music of poetry, but the sound of death, a siren call to suicide.

  • I couldn't let days dribble by in the routine of high school grammar, spelling, vocabulary, digging for the deeper meaning in poetry, bits of literature doled out for the multiple choice tests that would follow so that universities can be supplied with the best and the brightest.

  • He goes behind the wrestled solemnities of the poetry to reveal the effort, the strategizing, and the silliness.

  • Malinche has played an enormous role in the literary production of Chicana writing, in essays and short stories, but especially in poetry.


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