Word: poetic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This poetic travelogue tries to reconcile two voices. In "An Afterwards," one voice, in the persona of his wife, asks...
SOMETIMES SPARSE, always evocative, Heaney's imagery and use of metaphor facilitates his transferral of personal circumstance into poetic experience. In "The Guttural Muse," for example, the poet describes the noise and the young people leaving a discotheque...
Never had frustration such poetic license...
Badlands (1974). Terrence Malick's lean, poetic fable about a murderer and his girl on a rampage through lonely rural America in the 1950s...
...1970s, an age of specialization, reporters like Murrow had metamorphosed into "investigative journalists" like Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the enterprising Washington Post reporters who cracked the smilingly slick evil of Richard Nixon. They continued the tradition, and if they didn't have Sinclair's poetic ability, drive and something of his anger, they were heroes of a sort to a shocked America...