(n.) The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.
(n.) Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Crawford's own poetry was informed by contact with refugees – "I began to think seriously about what it felt like to lose your country or culture, and in my first book, there are one or two poems that are versions of Vietnamese poems" – and scientists, whose vocabulary he initially "stole because it seemed so metaphorically resonant.
(2) It would be symbolic – not legally binding – but Pearson’s proposal is not just constitutional poetry.
(3) If anything, more people are interested than if I was a young, straight man writing poetry about erotic encounters.
(4) It was quite an intimate experience of poetry, and that's what I'd like us to go back to now with children."
(5) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
(6) Instead, much of Darwish's early reading of the poetry of the world outside Palestine was through the medium of Hebrew.
(7) Despite our difference in generation, gender and literary purpose, it was clear to me that he and I were both working with some of the same aesthetic influences: film, surrealist art and poetry; Freud's avant-garde theories of the unconscious.
(8) Others have found more striking-power, or more simple poetry, but none an interpretation at once so full (in the sense of histrionic volume) and so consistently bringing all the aspects together, without any shirking or pruning away of what is inconvenient.
(9) In a scene of young soldiers at rest for a few minutes at the front, he takes us into their heads: one full of dire forebodings, another singing, one trying to identify a bird on a tree – soldiers dreaming of girls’ breasts, dogs, sausages and poetry.
(10) Grass's new collection of poetry, Eintagsfliegen , published in Germany last week, describes Vanunu as a "role model and hero of our time" who "hoped to serve his country by helping to bring the truth to light", and calls on Israelis to "recognise ... as righteous" the man "who remained loyal to his country all those years", according to German reports .
(11) "The inauguration address was poetry, and now people are looking for some prose," said Alden Meyer, policy director at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
(12) The poetry of Williams and Eliot and Pound demonstrated that things, assembled even as enigmatic fragments, as images without spelled-out emotional and logical connectives, give vitality to the language and immediacy to the communication between writer and reader.
(13) Louise Glück’s prose-poem collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night , won for poetry.
(14) She was shortlisted for a Forward prize at the age of 30 for her first collection, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, took the TS Eliot prize with her second , a remarkable book-length poem about the river Dart, and is now, 15 years later, widely hailed as one of British poetry's finest, brightest voices.
(15) Along the way, you will come across art installations, pop-up bars, street art and a poetry installation on buildings stretching for 10 kilometres called The Phrase.
(16) He recalls being summoned to see the military governor, who threatened him: "If you go on writing such poetry, I'll stop your father working in the quarry."
(17) Asked why the police had stopped the demonstrators who had been standing peacefully behind a banner about the power of poetry, a senior officer told the newspaper: "They are wearing balaclavas in a public space.
(18) The Serpentine's Poetry Marathon talks last year gave us 47 men and 18 women, as did its Manifesto Marathon the previous year.
(19) He writes poetry and prose, he writes news reports and short stories.
(20) Pinter adores poetry, would perhaps have preferred his poetry to have taken precedence over his plays, and his prose often has the compression and musicality of poetry, what he calls the "question of rhythm".
Song
Definition:
(n.) That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.
(n.) A lyrical poem adapted to vocal music; a ballad.
(n.) More generally, any poetical strain; a poem.
(n.) Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
(n.) An object of derision; a laughingstock.
(n.) A trifle.
Example Sentences:
(1) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
(2) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
(3) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(4) Unilateral lesions of n. intercollicularis (previously implicated in the control of vocal behavior) had little effect on song.
(5) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
(6) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
(7) Back then, before her life took a darker turn, Holiday was able to leave the song, and its politics, at the door on the way out.
(8) HVc and RA grow during the subsong and plastic song periods of song development.
(9) Furthermore, the homoeotic legs of SSa females are not required to be present for the detection of courtship song, since females whose homoeotic legs were removed could still distinguish between singing and non-singing males.
(10) Song appeared to give Bolt a good luck charm to wear around his wrist.
(11) Mahler's Second Symphony - that song of love, renewal, and spiritual growth that Abbado has been singing for more than 40 years.
(12) They released a song on (the now banned) YouTube, called Alu Anday (Potatoes and Eggs) taking a swipe at the military as well as sectarian killers.
(13) As we walk away from the restaurant, he looks up an interview (with himself) on his iPhone and announces his musical credentials: "Yup, two Radiohead songs in both 'Clueless' and 'Romeo and Juliet', back when all anybody knew was 'Creep'.
(14) Alighting upon the final four songs recorded by Drake, he pressed play and began to make notes before setting about mixing them for this putative release.
(15) "Here's Munich's Philharmonic Orchestra composing and writing a song for F.C.
(16) These results are compatible with the idea that tamoxifen does not block the action of estradiol in the brain of zebra finches, and suggest that the effects of early tamoxifen treatment on the morphology of the song system may reflect central actions of tamoxifen.
(17) If you want to describe sex, write a book or a song, or create a medical App,” they explain.
(18) Some artists get thousands of songs pitched and they never know, so Beyoncé herself probably never heard it.
(19) In mating test, hybrid males cout and are accepted by D. simulans females more than hybrid females (presumably because their song is more "acceptable" to the former).
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cream (1991) was Prince’s fifth US No 1 hit single His profile boosted by Sinéad O’Connor’s version of his song Nothing Compares 2 U, Prince embarked on another film and music project with Graffiti Bridge.