the muse is a poetic convention.
the poetic turn of a phrase.
a new poetic diction.
The piece ends with a truly poetic slow movement.
poetics should construct a theory of literary discourse.
constant principles govern the poetic experience.
a poetic text about growing up in rural England
His writing is rather self-consciously poetic.
poetic license. Frequently, though, it denotes undue freedom:
Wordsworth campaigned against exaggerated poetic diction.
The scholar discoursed at great length on the poetic style of John Keats.
He was using poetic licence when he described this room as ‘large, modern and comfortable’.
There's something quite poetic about that.
But in other ways, it reaches beyond realism to something more poetic and abstract.
You trying to wax poetic on me?
Dylan brought high poetic traditions into the popular vernacular.
What a poetic end to this game.
Doesn't sound quite as poetic, does it?
Fortunately for me, my parents were not poetic.
Langer sees it in poetic terms.
Just simmer in that, poetic juiciness.
Let's not get poetic. It hurts like hell.
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