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• His writing is rather self - consciously poetic.
• 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
• But the narrative remains strange and poetic enough for it never to appear formulaic or didactic.
• 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
• Her poetic styles vary from haiku to streetwise dramatic monologue, using the conventions of ‘standard’ English, as well as the defiance of Ebonics.
• 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.
• 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
• HISTORY buffs still wax poetic about the brutal patent battles a century ago between the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss, another aviation pioneer.
• Traditional in form, her poetry treats primarily romantic themes with elevated, poetic language.
• A poet in retirement, 1800-7 During these years we are still on the high plateau of Wordsworth's poetic achievement.