Word: poured
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...women keep diaries?...Dissatisfaction with the way love and work have been defined for the female is the unconscious impulse that prompts many to pour out their feelings on paper and to acquire the habit of personal accounting on some more or less regular basis. --from the Foreword to Revelations...
Auden was always more interested in experimenting with syntax than with things like meter and stanza and he was content to pour his unusual grammar into the molds of sonnet, quatrain and blank verse. His chief experiments in Thank You, Fog are with verbs. Poets who write in English, he tells us in one of his "Shorts," "can very easily turn nouns, if we wish, into verbs." He proceeds to do so with gusto, not only to nouns but almost every unit of syntax he can get his hands on. Some examples from a single new poem, "Archeology:" "vacancied long...
Sometimes a poet seems to outlive his greatness. Christopher Isherwood once claimed that you could give Auden a subject and a verse form and he'd bring you back a "perfect" poem in twenty-four hours. In his later years, Auden was no longer able to pour out great poetry effortlessly like this, but he could still write some excellent things, like "Epistle To A Godson." A poet of Auden's quality can never be "washed out;" for what it's worth, Auden was the greatest living English poet even in his decline. But it's still unfortunate...
Radcliffe was unaccustomed to this offense, and the Green scored at will in the second half. They managed to pour seven goals past the bewildered Radcliffe defense, and turned a close contest into a rout...
...Francesco Sforza- Il Cavallo, as Leonardo called it, the full-size clay model for which was shot to rubble by French crossbowmen after the conquest of Milan in 1500. It would have been the largest bronze group in recorded history, 23 ft. high, cast upside down in one continuous pour of 158,000 lbs. of metal...