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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
poetic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
poetic inspiration (=which inspires someone to write poetry)
▪ Poetic inspiration can come from many sources.
poetic justice
▪ After the way she treated Sam, it’s only poetic justice that Dave left her.
poetic licence
poetic/literary expression (=expressing something as poetry or in literature)
▪ The subject does not easily lend itself to poetic expression.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ The members of the first group were more poetic, philosophical, mystical, and artistic.
▪ It is surprising how a similar kind of construction in Bach has an altogether more poetic result.
▪ It would have been more poetic.
■ NOUN
form
▪ With strophic song the musical form is very much governed by the poetic form.
▪ We are not, of course, talking about a revolutionary shift in poetic form and / or content.
justice
▪ Just when you least expect it, she thought, poetic justice is waiting right around the corner.
▪ And would it not be poetic justice if he who had devised it, eventually died by it?
▪ It stands for poetic justice, you under-stand.
▪ If that were so, subsequent events had some of the characteristics of poetic justice.
▪ Once again the principle of { poetic justice } is demonstrated.
▪ Yet we have already noted how, in terms of poetic justice for instance, fabliau morality is often conventional in precisely these terms.
▪ In the real world, poetic justice is not so easily achieved.
language
▪ The relation between the fabula and the syuzhet is roughly analogous to the one between practical and poetic language.
▪ They have a minimalist approach, but with delicate, poetic language.
▪ This secondary elaboration of the original dream will use poetic language and ritual performance to communicate to others the original dream.
▪ It is ruled out equally by the Formalist opposition between practical and poetic language.
▪ By contrast, in poetic language referentiality is irrelevant and the emphasis is on the means of expression itself.
licence
▪ The film is but one version of some horrifying events, and stretched poetic licence to the extreme.
▪ After several days however, with nobody apprehended, the papers indulged in a little poetic licence.
▪ It's rite. i REpeat when i liKe. i have poetic licence! don't question me????
▪ Thomas Deloney may have used a little poetic licence to embroider a good yarn.
▪ Wilde took poetic licence to the extreme, for the true story is much more down to earth.
metaphor
▪ That we influence the world around us is not simply a poetic metaphor.
▪ They do not exhibit the semantic indeterminacy characteristic of poetic metaphors.
▪ For Kane a poetic metaphor became a literal truth.
voice
▪ Eliot's articulation of his authentic poetic voice gives way, despite himself, to a staging of his own destruction.
▪ Rather it is the changed tone of the poetic voice that we notice.
▪ Still, in an important way, Leapor's poetic voice is formed by her relations with other women.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
artistic/poetic licence
▪ After several days however, with nobody apprehended, the papers indulged in a little poetic licence.
▪ It's rite. i REpeat when i liKe. i have poetic licence! don't question me????
▪ The film is but one version of some horrifying events, and stretched poetic licence to the extreme.
▪ There's nothing wrong with a bit of artistic licence, of course.
▪ Thomas Deloney may have used a little poetic licence to embroider a good yarn.
▪ Wilde took poetic licence to the extreme, for the true story is much more down to earth.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
poetic imagery
▪ Cliburn's playing was poetic and sensitive.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By the 1930s Storni had gained sufficient independence to allow her poetic vision to encompass the world of objects around her.
▪ In Layton he saw the splendour, and the viability, of the poetic destiny.
▪ It's a troublesome beast, this poetic ambiguity which we are so often taught to value more highly than the explicit.
▪ Makine is a good writer, poetic but never fanciful, and one who treats childhood reflected through experience with delicacy.
▪ Once again the principle of { poetic justice } is demonstrated.
▪ Sperber and Wilson suggest that the effect achieved by such an utterance can be termed a poetic effect.
▪ Their religious authorities were poetic performers, not bureaucrats.
▪ We are not, of course, talking about a revolutionary shift in poetic form and / or content.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poetic

Poetic \Po*et"ic\, Poetical \Po*et"ic*al\, a. [L. po["e]ticus, Gr. ?: cf. F. po['e]tiquee.]

  1. Of or pertaining to poetry; suitable for poetry, or for writing poetry; as, poetic talent, theme, work, sentiments.
    --Shak.

  2. Expressed in metrical form; exhibiting the imaginative or the rhythmical quality of poetry; as, a poetical composition; poetical prose.

    Poetic license. See License, n., 4.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
poetic

1520s, from poet + -ic, or else from or influenced by Middle French poetique (c.1400), from Latin poeticus, from Greek poietikos "pertaining to poetry," literally "creative, productive," from poietos "made," verbal adjective of poiein "to make" (see poet). Related: Poetics (1727). Poetic justice "ideal justice as portrayed in plays and stories" is from 1670s. Poetic license attested by 1733.\n

\nEarlier adjective was poetical (late 14c.); also obsolete poetly (mid-15c.). Related: Poetically (early 15c.).

Wiktionary
poetic

a. Relating to poetry.

WordNet
poetic
  1. adj. of or relating to poetry; "poetic works"; "a poetic romance" [syn: poetical]

  2. characterized by romantic imagery; "Turner's vision of the rainbow...was poetic"

  3. of or relating to poets; "poetic insight"

  4. characteristic of or befitting poetry; "poetic diction" [syn: poetical]

Wikipedia
Poetic (disambiguation)

Poetic may refer to:

  • Poetry, or a relation thereof.
  • Too Poetic, a deceased rapper and hip hop producer.

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.