Sentence examples for poem plays from inspiring English sources

The poem plays, consciously or not, on Bishop's famous conclusion to "The Bight": "All the untidy activity continues, / awful but cheerful".

The poem plays on metaphors of surface and depth: the Métro, the sewers, the shady demi-monde on the one hand, the art works, monuments, galleries on the other.

"Vague Poem" plays on a confusion between rock roses and rose rocks; it concludes: This openly erotic approach is actually more successful than much of her published love poetry, which is considerably less forthcoming.

In the context of "Ghost Waltz," which recounts Day's agonized grappling with her Austrian father's Nazi past and his refusal to discuss it, this anecdote about the "erotic epic poem" plays like uncomfortable comedy, too strange to be true.

The poem plays, consciously or not, on Bishop's famous conclusion to "The Bight": "All the untidy activity continues, / awful but cheerful". And it has an accordingly greater sense of risk: what Zapruder is coming up against here is the knowledge not just of death and loss, but of the banality ("cheerfully beeping") of both.

Much of the poem plays out across a landscape of "stone white as cheese," populated not only by local fauna — with local names, such as "spuggies" for little sparrows, and the "slowworm," which is a kind of lizard — but by the ghostly legacies of Vikings and ancient bards, "crying / before the rules made poetry a pedant's game".

Her untitled poem played on the fact she had a headache: my headache remains into a feeling so tremendous it hurts".

@black_man_x, aka The Panda King and the supposed creator of this latest poem, played the same silly game with surprising accuracy concerning the then-named HTC Incredible HD.

It is in every movie, book, song, poem, play or museum we visit.

When is the last time you painted, wrote a poem, played the piano?

She started writing poems, plays and novels in the 1980s.