Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for poetize. Search instead for poetised.
Definitions

poetize

[poh-i-tahyz] / ˈpoʊ ɪˌtaɪz /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Her "Red" and "Yellow Lamas" preserve and poetize her mystery.

From Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdinand Ossendowski

So before I begin to poetize, i'll take an easy with you.

From Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

I agree, my master, that 'tis better to philosophize and poetize, to blow the flame in the furnace, or to receive it from carry cats on a shield.

From Notre-Dame De Paris by Isabel Florence Hapgood

All very well to poetize and maunder about in quiet Hazlewood; but, by Jove! you'll find it won't do in practical life.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various

Well, by St. John, I'll poetize, since everybody does; I find it coming.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Peter Anthony Motteux

The writing itself seems tipsy: It can be energetic, colorful, fun, buzzy, affecting and spot on, but also loose, sloppy, digressive and excessively poetized at moments, veering into nebulous grandiosity.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2018

A combatant for liberty, Shelley poetized in Queen Mob against kings, priests, commerce, wealth and war; he sought out the reformer, William Godwin, and in due course fell in love with his daughter, Mary.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is great difference of opinion among philosophers as to the origin of myths,--whether they began in fable and came to be regarded as history, or began as human history and were poetized into fable.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations by John Lord

They strove with their full strength against those conditions panegyrized and poetized by the smirking optimists of their time, and thereby incurred the enmity of pedants and self-sufficient purists,—were denounced and denied, belittled and belied.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann

Rousseau says that in prison he produced the best poem on Liberty,–hence the French, those state's-prisoners, used to write better prose on the subject than the free Britons,–hence Milton poetized in winter.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul

Why single out Freud, who, despite his Romantic poetizing about the seething cauldron of the unconscious, was himself a neurological determinist and reductionist?

From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2019

For four years he wandered through southern France, now poetizing for his connoisseur-host, Charles of Orleans, in the chateau at Blois, now sleeping in haystacks, once sentenced to death at Orleans.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is machine-made biography, but Ludwig is a facile mechanic, and only errs badly in poetizing, when he seems to write faster than he thinks.

From Time Magazine Archive

This poetizing spirit, which gives all life so much significance to the imagination, strikes it with sterility in every thing which should beget or prosper a personal career.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various

I am, therefore," said I, "always surprised at the learned, who seem to suppose that poetizing proceeds not from life to the poem, but from the book to the poem.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke


Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Join 14,000,000 vocabulary learners

Start learning new words today on VocabTrainer.
You'll remember them forever.

Start training