Word: poetics
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...cast member climbs a curtain that appears too weak to hold his weight and another falls into holes that aren’t really there. “Aurélia’s Oratorio” is full of such bizarre moments, which combine to create a poetic and wonderful production. Aurélia Thierrée’s practically one-woman show, written and directed by Victoria Thierrée Chaplin and running at the American Repertory Theatre through Jan. 3, is a surreal evening of intricate choreography, acrobatics, and optical illusion. At the start...
...those students and writers searching for poetic direction, she said that reading is of the utmost importance...
Doctors used to have poetic names for diseases. A physician would speak of consumption because the illness seemed to eat you from within. Now we just use the name of the bacterium that causes the illness: tuberculosis. Psychology, though, remains a profession practiced partly as science and partly as linguistic...
...undaunted, launched herself at Frederick’s back. Frederick, already half aroused at the sight of the grappling, bare-chested Amazons, could now feel his wife’s breasts pressed against his back, while Roxanna’s languorous form quivered against his embrace. It felt oddly poetic: ensconced between these two women to whom he had given so much.Felicity was still panting, and her breath was hot in Frederick’s ear. “Take us now,” she whispered. “Both of us. Together.”Frederick felt...
...take advantage of the diversity and breadth available to the Harvard community, which, in her case, has included auditing a neurobiology course.“That has really made me think about how language and specifically creative use of language is hard-wired into us and therefore that poetic use of language isn’t just something fancy,” Lewis says. “It matches exactly the way we learn language as infants.”This class has helped Lewis crystallize her feelings that poetry is essential in human life. “I started...