Word: poeticizes
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...writing and singing continue to renew themselves. Her roots in rebellion have flourished as stubborn, invincible candor. "The most important thing is to write in your own blood," she says. "I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel." Joni's confidences, delivered in poetic portraits, produce in her huge and varied audience a spirit of communion that separates the poet from the diarist...
When a football team is penalized more than 100 yards in a game, it is not supposed to escape with a victory. But Brown's junior varsity gridders violated the laws of poetic justice at yesterday's home contest as they outlasted the Crimson, 23-18, despite suffering 13 penalties for a loss of 144 yards...
...lies in its refinement. In Pinter's earlier plays, such as The Homecoming, the conflicts are manifested in awful acts of passion, power, and violence. The struggles in Old Times are as profound, as wrenching as ever; only, they are not so violent. They are enacted on a more poetic plane, and words are the chosen weapons. Pinter now knows that he can say what he wants to without raising his voice...
...only does Auden seem to be arguing for the kind of standardization he once accused totalitarianism of creating, but he seems to have forfeited--and it sounds at least partly intentional--one of his best poetic voices. Auden was the greatest writer of English light verse since Byron. He could make ideas sound "truer than true" without criminal oversimplification, and in long poems like New Year Letter and Letter to Lord Byron he had proved himself as effective at satirizing the condition of modern man as at prescribing for it. In the process, he came up with such sparkling intellectual...
...neck of rhetoric," Auden seems simply to be trying to restore some of the freshness of his old voice. Sometimes he succeeds, sometimes he is merely awkward. For example, one of the best things about Auden's early poetry was the way he integrated popular speech into his own poetic voice; but that kind of success is largely a question of touch, of getting the nuance just right, and Auden doesn't seem to have been able to assimilate the characteristic phrases of the sixties as well as those of the twenties...