POETRY in a Sentence

Learn POETRY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

91 example sentences for POETRY, such as:

1. Her poetry has an elegiac quality.
2. His poetry was the object of scorn.
3. His writings include poetry and a novel.
4. He writes estimable poetry under a pseudonym.
5. She could recall only fragments of his poetry.

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 Meanings and Examples of POETRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
poetry
 n.  literary work to express feelings and ideas by distinctive style and rhythm
Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1  And he stood alone in his interest in books and music and his fondness for writing poetry.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  He knew no poetry save that of Moore and no music except the songs of Ireland that had come down through the years.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Melly and he were always talking such foolishness, poetry and books and dreams and moonrays and star dust.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
4  He was born to rule, to live in a large house, ride fine horses, read books of poetry and tell negroes what to do.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
5  Bertha certainly HAD grown tiresome since she had taken to poetry and Ned Silverton.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
6  They were biology and mystery; their speech was slang phrases and flares of poetry; their silences were contentment, or shaky crises when his arm took her shoulder.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  She did not, in recovering something of her buoyancy, forget her determination to begin the liberalizing of Gopher Prairie by the easy and agreeable propaganda of teaching Kennicott to enjoy reading poetry in the lamplight.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  When the housewives, who bear the burdens, are interested in poetry, it means something.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  He gave most of the morning lectures, droning with equal unhappy facility about poetry, the Holy Land, and the injustice to employers in any system of profit-sharing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  She recalled a hundred grotesqueries: her comic dismay at his having chewed tobacco, the evening when she had tried to read poetry to him; matters which had seemed to vanish with no trace or sequence.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
11  When she was driving with Kennicott, in early evening, she saw him on the lake shore, reading a thin book which might easily have been poetry.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  You're all the things that I see in a sunset when I'm driving in from the country, the things that I like but can't make poetry of.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
13  Oh, if you keep at it long enough you'll have Sam and me reading poetry and everything.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  Again, he would sit until nearly midnight, talking about Latin and English poetry, or telling me about his long stay in Italy.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: I
15  It came over me, as it had never done before, the relation between girls like those and the poetry of Virgil.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  He writes estimable poetry under a pseudonym.
2  I should think the Welsh are the only people in the world whose only national festival is devoted to music and poetry.
3  Later the Lopez family was sickened to see the poetry of Gina Celaya printed in the Citizen.
4  It helps children to develop an appreciation of poetry and literature.
5  There is a strong element of mysticism in his poetry.
6  This is a good example of Shelley's lyric poetry.
7  Her poetry is full of obscure literary allusions.
8  His writings include poetry and a novel.
9  His poetry was the object of scorn.
10  Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a apeaking picture.
11  Professor Lee will give us a lecture on poetry.
12  Professor Mackay will give a seminar on musical settings of Verlaine's poetry.
13  Her poetry has an elegiac quality.
14  She could recall only fragments of his poetry.
15  His poetry conveys a great sense of religious devotion.