Sentence examples for constitute a poem from inspiring English sources

Beautiful, difficult, expansive, compacted, ecstatic, tragic, inspired, labored, godlike, human: the Elegies constitute a poem about everything that manages to be -- well, everything.

Joan Webber argues that these lines constitute a poem, in dactylic hexameter; David Novarr disputes this, arguing that Stationes "has none of Donne's customary wit, drama, and imagination".

Mary Arshagouni, writing in Modern Philology, argues that the stationes indeed constitute a poem – or, at least, something more than a mere table of contents.

But line endings in a poem constitute a primary strangeness.

He wrests so many differences out of his limited palette, and at the same time keeps their overall character so unified, that they constitute a single great, painted poem.

Some songs, sonnets, or poems constitute a storyline or talk about a certain event.

If these impish confidence tricks complicate our understanding of translation, they also alter our understanding of what constitutes an original poem.

Arguably Heaney at his most linguistically adventurous, the poems in North constitute a deep lyrical inquiry into the politics and violent history of northern Europe.

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem: See the spring.

In Canada, a judge's ruling that a poem constituted a death threat is being appealed: "Antonio Batista wrote the poem about Pat Saito, a Ward 9 Mississauga councillor, after he received a property tax bill in 2005 meant for a developer and had trouble sorting out the problem".

Other poems were neglected once his prose-writing career took off; gathered here, they constitute a magnificent corpus.