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