How To Use Poe In A Sentence
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The poems, plays, and essays of the committed cultural nationalist are characterized by a markedly hortatory or didactic manner.
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The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
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It is just as well that this doubly weighty volume, which offers a lot of poems for the pound, tends to reward the effort it demands.
The Times Literary Supplement
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‘Break, break, break,’ for instance, is a bitter poem on unrecompensed, pointless loss, but it achieves its power and makes its point very indirectly, largely through structural implications.
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These "Observations" were the first of a series of volumes by Gilpin on the scenery of Great Britain, composed in a poetic and somewhat over-luxuriant style, illustrated by drawings in aquatinta, and all described on the title page as "Relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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The professor improvised a poem in the class.
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Both see the value of learning poetry by rote.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is much in the words and thoughts of the Romantic poets that is excessive or impractical, but their beliefs and the passion with which they pursued them still serve as an example.
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A flanking attack on Antigonus' troops from Spartan light infantry stationed in the Oenus valley was thwarted by an aggressive cavalry attack led by the Achaean general Philopoemen.
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After a brief excursion into drama, he concentrated on his main interest, which was poetry.
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The prose is strewn with biblical and poetic tags and pang full of rhetorical devices.
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The poet has symbolized his lover with a flower.
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The diverse problems of succession and authority which face the brothers, the audience, and the poet reflect upon one other throughout, and this self-awareness renders nugatory the traditional criticism of Statius as derivative.
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The highly textured surface of these poems does not, however, obscure the continuous emotional undercurrent.
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Andrews assumes that the lyric poet's freedom to dissent is only the freedom to say ‘yes’ to the American ideology - individualism.
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A tanka is a 31 syllable poem that pre-dates the Haiku.
BC Bloggers
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His golf swing is poetry in motion .
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In writing poetry, one is unfettered by the normal rules of sentence structure.
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And where he is matchless is as a poet of fishing and the sea.
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Vordul's verse is uninspiring and sounds much more like spoken word poetry, rather than a proper rap.
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When they relate poetry to music, they invite harsh criticism on two fronts, not just one.
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She is well schooled in poetry
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And I owe much of my further understanding of Voltaire through his face to an essay invitingly titled Voltaire's Grin by Richard Holmes, the "total immersion" biographer whom I've praised before -- mostly for his work on the interlinked poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.
David Tereshchuk: French Claim for Origins of Investigative Journalism
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For the whole night, under the influence of a hallucinogen called yagé, the healer sings his song the power of which is due not to words, lyrics, or poetry.
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Drinking among the upper classes of Persian society, for example, took place at secret parties reminiscent of Greek symposia with their strictly ritualized etiquette and emphasis on poetry and discussion.
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His writing is rather self - consciously poetic.
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These prose pieces ultimately acquire a kind of poetic intensity of effect in their bleak circumscription of the character's experience, although they avoid self-consciously "poetic" devices:
Narrative Strategies
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Though there is ever-present sadness the poet still wishes to "whip in kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Kazim Ali: From East Jerusalem to Ramallah
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Beddoes as a writer of brief lyric poems, songs exhumed from the bodies of his dramas, and for the bizarre, sprawling Death's Jest Book.
Introduction
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James Tate has published a number of books of poetry.
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San Francisco poets Tarin Towers and Daphne Gottlieb, Eitan Kadosh from L.A. and Phoenix's Eirein Bradley barnstormed with O'Hara through 35 U.S. cities over the summer.
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However, the same writer made a poem on the tricks of countryfolk, which is by no means devoid of merit.
The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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But the narrative remains strange and poetic enough for it never to appear formulaic or didactic.
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Yet Highland culture continues to flourish through the Gaelic language, piping, ceilidhs (informal gatherings with traditional music, dancing and poetry) and a full schedule of Highland games.
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Recollecting the day he saw Napoleon on the street, the poet imagines what must be the tumult of thoughts behind Caesar's moveless mask-the cities, the factories, the armies rising in the conqueror's dream of power.
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Tusking," published in March 1986, was the first of his poems to appear in the TLS: a powerful frightening parable of coloniser and colonised, it is untypical of Imlah's work only in its short lines.
Archive 2009-04-01
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(His hairy chest was open to what poets call the 'wined',
In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses
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I've been thinking recently about onomatopoeia: the sound words we use to describe actions.
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Such verses are preserved mainly in the kings' sagas; many ‘lausavísur’ or occasional verses, and some love poetry are included in the narratives of family sagas.
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Tefillah (Prayer) contains poems specifically written for a siddur (prayer book).
Marge Piercy: Statement
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The poem, in Italian, is an extended or "tailed" sonnet, with a coda of six lines appended to the standard 14.
Archive 2010-01-01
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Classic poetry and rhetoric give kids a language, at once subtle and copious, in which to articulate their own thoughts, perceptions, and inchoate feelings.
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His poetry conveys a great sense of religious devotion.
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I believed that there was such a question and that it was up to us, students of the poem, to formulate it.
The Empty Family
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Wistfully, William Wordsworth wrote: en and everyone understood what the poet meant.
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A compendium of greatest hits, plus a poetic "birl" (spin) from Seamus Heaney, it seems to be modelled on the Burns night, with O'Hagan, a lively novelist and cultural commentator, playing MC.
The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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In contrast to the image of the poet as the orderer, the craftsman, the poets of the _Fragments_ have a kind of artlessness (to us a very studied one, to be sure) that gave them an aura of sincerity and honesty.
Fragments of Ancient Poetry
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He is like the showy orchis, or the lady's-slipper, or the shooting star among plants, -- a stranger to all but the few; and when an American poet says cuckoo, he must say it with such specifications as to leave no doubt what cuckoo he means, as Lowell does in his "Nightingale in the Study:" --
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
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He was called to the Irish bar in 1951 and has earned a reputation as an esteemed playwright, poet and biographer.
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S · Eliot is one of the most influential poet literary critic in the 20 th century.
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The society often arranges poetry readings and musical evenings.
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Other student-poets cleaved to the justified left margin; still others wrote in paragraphs.
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Margaret Eleanor Atwood (1939- ) is a prestigious contemporary Canadian woman writer, poet, and critic with international reputation and she is famous for her prolificacy and experimental techniques.
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Her poetic styles vary from haiku to streetwise dramatic monologue, using the conventions of ‘standard’ English, as well as the defiance of Ebonics.
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The writer of the poems marks parental rejection with astounding empathy.
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The message that comes to us and to every man and woman from the best of his prose and all of his poetry is the parting message of Spirit in "Comus":
Milton As An Empire Builder
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One effort was an adulatory poem, Le Siecle de Louis le Grand, in which he claimed that Louis XIV's world equalled, and surpassed, that of the ancient world.
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These volumes contain poetry which may be categorized generally as a poetry of attitudes, the attitudes being both literary and vital.
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I bet you have your own sheaf of pathetic poesy you want to bore us with.
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The analogical structure and poetical impulse that runs through all of the paired images are even found in the artist's single images such as his Giglio.
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He explained that poetry had caught an infection from the rest of the ghastly, pustular commercial world.
Times, Sunday Times
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That said, the compression and reticence of Italian high modernist poetry are still prominent stylistic features in Italian verse.
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There seemed to my perverted sense a certain poetic justice about the fact that money, gained honestly but prosaically, in groceries or gas, should go to regild an ancient blazon or prop up the crumbling walls of some stately palace abroad.
Worldly Ways and Byways
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He wrote in a highly individual, sometimes obscure, way that was in sharp contrast to the compressed intellectual style of T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden and other contemporary poets.
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Lawson's ‘The Teams’ is still one of my favourite poems - partly because I know how accurate was Lawson's description of the taciturn, hard-working teamsters.
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The word has reasserted the romantic, courageous quality that the poet Keats, in “Endymion,” gave it: “Adventuresome, I send/My herald thought into a wilderness.”
No Uncertain Terms
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she recited a poem
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In the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins' evocative phrasing, ‘All is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; and wears man's smudge and shares man's smell.’
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His poems were published under the title of 'Love and Reason'.
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HISTORY buffs still wax poetic about the brutal patent battles a century ago between the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, another aviation pioneer.
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I want to hear him read some scary fiction or corny old poetry, play his nose flute, then get us all to open our windows and shout, ‘Excelsior, you fatheads!’
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Caroline Kennedy anthologized these poems, but they're our American heritage.
'American Scrapbook' draws on Kennedy family's favorite poems
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Traditional in form, her poetry treats primarily romantic themes with elevated, poetic language.
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Poetry is that fine particle within us, that expands, rarefies, refines, raises our whole being: without it "man's life is poor as beast's".
English literary criticism
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A poet in retirement, 1800-7 During these years we are still on the high plateau of Wordsworth's poetic achievement.
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He is a first-class pianist and organist and has composed music and written and published his own poems.
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Some few poets were bought over; but, among men following the profession of the press, a change of politics is an infringement of the point of honor, and a man must FIGHT as well as apostatize.
The Paris Sketch Book
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But Gallagher, a noted poet, was delighted with the way Altman "metamorphosed" the stories.
The Player Returns
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At one time or another I also participated in extemporaneous speaking, poetry and prose reading, and in a particular lapse of sanity, number sense.
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This week's poem is from the book of shortlisted and highly commended poems.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lady, too, is a votary of the muses; and as I think myself somewhat of a judge in my own trade, I assure you that her verses, always correct, and often elegant, are much beyond the common run of the _lady poetesses_ of the day.
The Letters of Robert Burns
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In Hegelian aesthetics, the sacred art of the sublime can only be the art of poetry.
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Those are Americans to those of you not versed in the poetry of rhyming slang.
The Sun
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The boy gabbled off the poem as though he neither understood nor enjoyed it.
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He was excellently placed to be the next Poet Laureate when the position fell vacant in ninety-six.
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Her poetry is reckoned among the best-known this century.
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I'd listened to the programme a fair few times during my last year at school '93-4 and been dazzled by its mix of inspired music, learned guests, poetry, comedy and all-round self-deprecating dementedness, but it wasn't until I left for university that I became a devout fan.
Archive 2006-04-01
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And he called Herodotus a thief and a beguiler, and “the same with intent to deceive,” as one of their own poets writes.
Letters to Dead Authors
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Its poetic quality lies not in ornamentation but in rhythm.
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She read a poem entitled 'The Apple Tree'.
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A poet must experience, rather than simulate reality or rely on second-hand information.
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The program started off ascetically with "Six Studies in English Folksong" which the program warned us were "very melancholic," continued with a song cycle for violin and tenor called "Along the Field" to poems by A.E. Houseman, and finished off the first half with insanely Pre-Raphaelite lushness to a song cycle set to Dante Gabriel Rosetti poems called "The House of Life.
Thomas Glenn Sings Vaughan Williams
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He might have confirmed the relation between dumbness and darkness from the acutest metaphysician among poets, in Dante's _ove il sol tace_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
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In 1879, Maurice, son of the poet and novelist George MacDonald, died at the age of fifteen.
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He might have said poetic language is not prosaic.
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The title of the first poem refers to the resourcefulness required to ride out tropical storms.
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But the poem appears to commend long-suffering endurance and to suggest that mourners may be silently visited by Divine Grace.
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War poetry and memoirs tell a more honest story.
Times, Sunday Times
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No less powerfully mythopoetic than the classical image of the disease, the demonological model envisioned the hysterical anesthesias, mutisms, and convulsions as stigmati diaboli or marks of the devil.
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The tone of his poetry is restrained and unemotional.
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Poems and hymns of the Hebrew people are expressed in Psalms.
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Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage. Charles Dickens
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The development of a ball made out of celluloid was a breakthrough, and led to the onomatopoeic baptism of the game.
Play Ball!
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This work connected the introverted poet with a new and surprisingly outer-directed passion that would affect many lives.
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Such songbirds were considered the most elegant and refined of pets, a living reference to traditional Chinese art and poetry.
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The story they tell you is mainly an internal story, a game of poetic connections between one part of the sculpture and the next.
Times, Sunday Times
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Why he should choose to express that interval by fifty, rather than by fifty-two, weeks, may be surmised in two ways: first, because the latter phrase would be unpoetical and unmanageable; and, secondly, because he might fancy that the week of the Pagan Theseus would be more appropriately represented by a lunar quarter than by a Jewish hebdomad.
Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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All in all it was the sort of night to make Edgar Allan Poe salivate at its possibilities.
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
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And for those of us who are learning Spanish here is a nonpoetic translation:
Amor y romanticismo 2
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My father tried to induce me to learn Arabic poetry by heart, encouraged me, gave me prizes - also for knowledge in astronomy.
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The name of this friendly looking restaurant, is taken from the title of a sombre poem “Le bateau ivre”.
Serment - French Word-A-Day
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It does this by creating an atmosphere that is closer to poetry than to traditional prose narrative.
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Brooke's poems were published in 1911, and after a year wandering in the North America and the South Seas, he was commissioned into the Royal Navy.
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The ineffable in poetry is almost always the unreadable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Denique Regia Chrifti dignitas ex eo fplendefdt» quod Crux exempta poenis fuppliciorum, translata pft ad frontes, & cqronas Impcratorum.
Theologia dogmatico-moralis secundum ordinem catechismi Concilii Tridentini
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The poem outlined his experience of being gender-fluid and sprang from being confronted with old photos at his grandparents' house.
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In the poem, Hector's body, attached to Achilles' chariot and dragged around Troy, cannot be mutilated because Aphrodite has anointed it with ambrosia.
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“Myers,” presumably speaking through the medium, produced a stream of poetic, recondite associations from the word Lethe that meant nothing to the medium or the experimenter.
Experiencing the Next World Now
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The poems of Homer have the most perfect metre, the hexameter, which is also called heroic.
Essays and Miscellanies
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But, immortalized in stone, evincing sand-cast mastery of poem!
Revenge poem for Sara, following her disparaging remarks about my unfamiliarity with the literary history of the East Coast
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Indeed, before entering the first of two main spaces devoted to the exhibit, you encounter five 1968 lithographs inspired by the poet Pablo Neruda's epic work, "Canto General," an all-embracing distillation of Latin American history, geography and culture.
Siqueiros in Unfamiliar Terrain
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I needed some guidance that only the best poetry can provide, so I turned to this month's issue of plangent voices magazine, at $3.75 your best entertainment value.
Spring Cleaning for Poets
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Like pieces from a musician, her collection of poetry vamps through various repeated patterns and themes truly fulfilling the ‘ostinato’ description in her title.
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Piers the plowman is the name assumed by Robert or William Langland, in a historico-satirical poem so called.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
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In the process he made some of the most beautiful poems ever written in the English language.
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This first of many direct and oblique connections between the two poets takes considerable ballsyness on the younger Berrigan's part, but it all pays off in the end.
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More weight is given to politics than poetry, history or writing, it would seem.
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Building her account around key verbs, which she would both act out while she spoke and express in onomatopoeic rhythms and tones that (re) produced history even as she uttered it, Cufassane gave the impression that she was an expert potter even though she had never made a pot in her life.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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His letters, like his poetry, are life-enhancing and a delight.
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Wherefore, upon all these accounts, as well as for all the reasons before mentioned, youth stands in need of good government to manage it in the reading of poetry, that being free from all prejudicate opinions, and rather instructed beforehand in conformity thereunto, it may with more calmness, friendliness, and familiarity pass from thence to the study of philosophy.
Essays and Miscellanies
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narrative poetry
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The poems come to us across a great chronological and cultural divide, and the reader is reminded of this fact by the occasional archaic word and by the unusual compounding, both of which impart a faintly disorienting tone.
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This does not necessarily imply a divorce between poetry and the conditions of life.
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Common metrical patterns in both poetry and music are iambic, trochaic, dactylic, amphibrachic, anapaestic, spondaic, and tribrachic.
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He tried to work off the poem as his own.
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The poet and the painter have never met before, but their pairing seems inspired.
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To write a form of lyric poetry that was intensely emotional, but sidelined my own ego.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘The most modern of all poets,’ he called Donne, and it is precisely this sense of Donne's contemporaneity that links the diverse voices assembled here.
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I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with your poetry.
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He devoted himself to the reconstruction of lost orthographies and grammars, developed a distinctly Japanese poetics.
井の中の蛙 » Renaissance Japan » Print
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Of his style and manner, if we think first of the romance-poetry and then of Chaucers divine liquidness of diction, his divine fluidity of movement, it is difficult to speak temperately.
The Study of Poetry
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A poem of 14 lines in iambic pentameter, which follows the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efefgg.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lawyer-Poet
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For in opening their lives to the entire expanse of Greco-Arabic and Hebrew learning, the dictionally pure Jewish poets of Cordoba, Granada, and Saragossa carried out an act of profound, if paradoxical, cultural redemption.
The Lost Jewish Culture
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Poets used to sing of such heroic deeds.
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For the ground bass of recurrent sound is poetic metre.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Some of the new products included on the council's "stocktake" are new farm cottages, guest houses, a diving resort, a fly fishing club, river trips, safaris and mampoer and witblits tasting tours.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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I cannot express in words how disspointed I was to find that “macaronic” did not refer to poetry sung to the tune of “Macarena”
Waaay off topic - The Panda's Thumb
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Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
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I had a reason to expect much from this work, based on other compositions of his, especially his outstanding Edgar Allan Poe song cycle for baritone and piano Lenoriana.
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` ` The style of his Grace (to say nothing here of his thought, of which others have spoken words of admiration certainly not too strong) often runs into poetry; and it has everywhere that indescribable not-too-muchness which is always the cachet of high-class work. ''
Ginx's Baby. His Birth and other Misfortunes: A Satire
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The flattish factuality of the poem well conveys its embarrassed self-accusation.
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She said rural Ireland inspired her and she wrote pages of poetry about the landscape and the people.
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She was the virgin poetess dressed in white, the tremulous daughter who never left her father's house, the maiden who turned to art because she was thwarted in love.
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Defy the tempest & the storm deride is not in the original nor is it good. ποθος [19] is hardly fierce desire — & all such expressions of ram-cat raptures are bad. by the by she a dark lanthern might have deprived us of this poem. your storm is very good — zounds I sweat at the bare idea of the
Letter 138
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The poem can be read as a protest against war.
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The best and the worst of the 19th-century romantic poets also had daft political ideas.
Times, Sunday Times
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As Matthew Woodcock points out, there have been many studies of queenliness in Spenser's The Faerie Queene, but very few that made sense of the poet's use of fairy.
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She reminds us that French revolutionary leaders were often portrayed as wild beasts or savage tigers by critics at the time and that the tiger in the poem is located in a nightmarish industrial landscape.
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Socialists who stressed the struggle of the poor, like the poet Attila József, were a minority voice.
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Some passages can be simple descriptions; others can be almost poetic or oblique.
Times, Sunday Times
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The use of the poetic device hyperbaton, or inverted word order, is a form of repetition that sets the mood for the rest of the section.
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The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself
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Laura (Riding) Jackson
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This latest collection, which brings a host of unpublished poems into the public domain, is the perfect marriage of old and new.
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Very little of his poetry actually got into print .
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Say the word geisha and images of beautiful kimono-clad women serving green tea, reciting poetry and playing classical instruments may spring to mind.
News On Japan
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The path is situated along the Tejo river and the poem is an homage to the river in the writer's home town.
Portugal's New Bike Paths (VIDEO)
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They were asked to write an appreciation of a poem of their choice.
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The real fireworks are provided by Shakespeare's poetry.
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poetry often does not translate
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As a poet, he is now unfashionable, so it is a moot question whether a play based on him can be of any current interest.
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It seems odd that a poet so keen - perhaps even desperate - to reach across time, to provide us with such realism, should do so by writing wilfully unreadable poems.
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But the overall effect of the poem is one of denial, fabricated intimacy and an insulting treatment of a situation that in our culture has already been spiritualized and depersonalized to death.
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Kabir is that rare thing: a skeptical, disillusioned poet who nevertheless speaks in a voice of rapture and entrancement.
When Mysticism Came Down to Earth
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A metro poem has as many verses as your trip has stations, minus one.
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But one great poet is perhaps enough in any family, even the most civilized.
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In the opening "distich" Mr. Dutt makes the claim to be the first Asiatic poet to write in English, and if that is true this insignificant work becomes the seed of which the full flower is the gifted Rabindra, son of
A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions
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I have a bipartite response to that question, the first reason being that Rimbaud, in his work and in his life, was perhaps the first truly modern poet.
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He got a grandstand view of the poetry world and where poetry was heading - and a chance to think more deeply about poetry itself.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Though you get there by flight, you firmly land on the substrate of mythopoetic ground.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God
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I have recommitted myself to discovering a slower lifestyle -- I do, of course, fully believe in the power of poetry and play -- but the siren song of a highly productive life still calls compellingly to me.
Christine Carter, PhD: Borrowing Time for Bliss
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I was blown away by your story — so powerful, multileveled, poetic prose, all in so few words: a fabulous job.
Interview with String-of-10 TWO First Place Winner: Ann Pino
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The first and last are love poems, but the second is a dirge for an Irish hero.
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His poetry was his attempt to externalise that inner dialogue, but his obscurity of expression, as opposed to his expression of obscurity, provided a most daunting translative challenge.
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Hrothgar's hall resounds with the laughter and songs of poets, who retell the famed history of the Danish tribe.
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The ballade, full of dramatic intensity, mainly inspired by Polish epic poems, was a new musical form invented by Chopin.
Chopin's 'Soul and Heart'
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Contact you dream? you listen? spoken word? norbert blei | six found-poems in the words and paintings of andrew wyeth
Norbert blei | six found-poems in the words and paintings of andrew wyeth « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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This, I believe, is the essence of the poem; you believe that through the consummation of a marriage of mind and nature it is possible to create paradise here on earth.
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Read the poem in connection with this selection.] [Footnote 5: The Janiculum is a high hill across the Tiber from
Latin for Beginners
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The poem will be etched in the memorial stone - a tangible acknowledgement of the loss of life and accompanying grief, says Appleton.
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Yet one cannot be too strict in policing the boundaries between these two levels, for in drawing attention to the poetics of articulation, "Mont Blanc" suggests that philosophical argument inevitably relies on representations of an embodied "I," narrative exempla, privileged metaphors, and repeated terms.
Rhyming Sensation in 'Mont Blanc'
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Writing poetry liberated her from the routine of everyday life.
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His gentler poeticism has fallen out of fashion.
Times, Sunday Times
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If Chaucer's death went unmarked in the public world, his loss was deeply felt by the poets who followed after him.
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How would one teach that poem to a future generation that had come to regard the word as a piece of raillery?
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There are sceptics about this poetry boomlet.
Times, Sunday Times
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The poet was careful to distance himself from the political tensions of his native country.
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The first citation for the word "ideation" in the sense of "creation of new ideas" in the Oxford English Dictionary is from the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Week in Words
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_ What you call epigram gives life and spirit to grave works, and seems principally wanted to relieve a long poem.
Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
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Sometimes he is funny; sometimes he seems like a poet.
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The paper will also attend to some critical implications of the meter's movement, and will end by pointing to successors of Auden - poets like John Hollander and Marilyn Hacker - who followed his example and took up the alcaic meter in their own verses.
