Crossword clues for poetic
poetic
- Fancifully worded
- Burnsian, e.g
- Written with rhymes, say
- Written in quatrains, e.g
- Type of license or justice
- Type of justice
- Of odes and sonnets
- Not prosaic?
- Metered and rhyming
- Like e'en or e'er
- Like ballads and sonnets
- License type
- Kind of license?
- Janet/Tupac movie "___ Justice"
- It may precede "license"
- How one might wax, but not wane
- Flowing off the page, maybe
- Flowery, perhaps
- Flowery, in a way
- Filled with romantic imagery
- Expressed in verse
- Elegantly expressed
- Appropriate for versification
- Adjective with license or justice
- "____ Justice"
- Lyrical judge’s fitting end?
- Entice police chief initially developing freedom in lines
- Dispensation for writers Nice police, etc, engineered
- Graceful, in a way
- Kind of license or justice
- Burnsian, e.g.
- Beautifully imaginative
- Like some justice
- Idyllic, maybe
- Word with justice or license
- Word before license or justice
- Like works of Kipling and Browning
- Parnassian
- Beautifully worded
- Like Lovelace's lines
- Kind of justice or license
- Like Frost's works
- Like Shelley's works
- Quote work recalled with a lyrical style
- Looking up to quote work of lyrical quality
- Relating to verse
- A lot of credit goes to a writer showing imagination
- Describing one form of justice? Policeman upset about alien one
- Written in verse, say
- One way to wax
- Done like Donne
- __ license
- Word before justice or license
- Like Wordsworth's words
- Like Shakespeare
- Like odes
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Poetic \Po*et"ic\, Poetical \Po*et"ic*al\, a. [L. po["e]ticus, Gr. ?: cf. F. po['e]tiquee.]
Of or pertaining to poetry; suitable for poetry, or for writing poetry; as, poetic talent, theme, work, sentiments.
--Shak.-
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
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
a. Relating to poetry.
WordNet
Wikipedia
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.