Kind of license?

Usage examples of poetic.

He felt sick at the sight of the dry bloodstains on the floor, but there was a certain poetic justice to be found: also on the floor were the same bungi cords that Marks and Akers had used to tie him up.

This extraordinary thirteen-page text, which is generally most appreciated as an example of poetic talent, also encompasses astrological, allegorical and alchemical symbolism.

It was more agreeable to watch the clouds while the horses rested at the end of the furrow, to address, as did Burns, lines to a field-mouse, or to listen to the song of the meadow-lark, than to learn the habits of the three dimensions then known, of points in motion, of lines in intersection, of surfaces in revolution, or to represent the unknown by algebraic instead of poetic symbols.

Who knows what Herculean poetic feats might be left to him in perhaps the score of years between a premature apologia and death?

The general pathos of the idea disabled the criticism of the audience, composed of the authoress and the reader, blinding perhaps both to not a little that was neither brilliant nor poetic.

I complained about his tendency to weigh his story down with vast wads of bafflegab and infodump and strain for vaguely poetic sound bites.

She would have suffered somewhat because of this, and styling herself a Canaanite, a member of a lost race, is her poetic way of dealing with that confusion, that pain.

The uncanny defamiliarization effected by the Court takes place immediately, with the directedness of Freudian condensation and poetic metonymy, with the suddenness of the Freudian joke.

This absorption in material things and evanescent affairs engenders in the spirit an arid atmosphere of doubt and denial, in which no efflorescence of poetic and mystic faiths can flourish.

Balzac does, and from this very accumulation he manages to derive that singular gigantesque vagueness --differing from the poetic vague, but ranking next to it--which I have here ventured to note as his distinguishing quality.

Very respectfully, WAXING POETIC OVER FIRST LOVE November 24, 1925 Ithaca Gun Company Ithica, New York Gentlemen, I am sending you by parcel post the barrels of an Ithica hammerless shot gun, No.

Scotch peasants--kind-hearted, picturesque, free, musical, poetic, but wanting, helas, in polish to strangers.

Dostoevsky is in love with the freedoms released by the rhetoric of idiocy and the poetics of epilepsy.

This prompted Gaylene to wax poetic about her kabobs, and this served to keep us diverted for most of an hour.

In this way he himself raises the possibility of a poetic coincidence between the journey of his novelistic variations and that of donjuanesque knowledge.