poetry
Example Sentences
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Eliot was creating a new type of poetry from stylistic juxtapositions, “Louis Armstrong, way down the river in New Orleans, was working out a similar technique for jazz.”
“When he wrote those game intros, it was like poetry. He’d write them out and then say them. ... He didn’t give opinions, he just told you what was happening.”
From Los Angeles Times
In fact, according to Romney, most of the family wrote, whether poetry, sermons, plays, or fiction.
From Los Angeles Times
But the real reason he writes poetry, he says, is simply to express himself.
In “Fan Mail: A Guide to What We Love, Loathe, and Mourn,” he is quick to praise those works of film, fiction and poetry he loves and equally quick to pan those he hates.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.