Word: poetic
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Francis opened with “Train Window,” a mellow poetic song on the album, but amplified the guitar solos in performance to build excitement. The audience responded by cheering, dancing and singing along. Francis never cut the torrent of music, never allowing a pause for applause...
LaTeef used her own strategy in the retelling. She enlarged upon the woman’s role, having her create the contest instead of passively observing. “I kept the main ideas. From there, I took poetic license.” Although she happened on it in her 20s, LaTeef’s serendipitous discovery of the story was in part the result of her childhood travels...
...usual poetic flow of attack-counterattack was often disrupted by the elements. Long balls sailed over their intended recipients. Corners flew out of bounds. Passes swerved off target...
...wanted to be a poet rather than propagandist. So is it surprising that he takes pleasure in “escaping the shackles of the civic”? On the other hand, in times of conflict, Heaney acknowledges that there can be “more reliability in the poetic than the actual,” making poetry a source of strength through dire straits. Indeed, Heaney invokes T.S. Eliot’s conviction that “public activity is more of a drug than this solitary toil [of writing] that often seems so pointless...
...seemed sometimes that Heaney was too quick to disparage the political in defense of the poetic, he was redeemed in the end by a president. In a 1995 speech, former President Bill Clinton claimed that some of his favorite lines were an extra chorus that Heaney wrote into his version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes...