Sentence examples for revised a poem from inspiring English sources
Don Paterson doubts that Shakespeare "ever revised a poem without improving it significantly", and he might have had more confidence about his own talents in that line.
There are four basic methods of revising a poem so that its content or its argument becomes stronger and clearer: cut, expand, rearrange, or substitute.
Revising a poem one morning, I found myself knowing that a new phrase was repellent, but realized it would pass if I intoned it out loud.
As I revised each poem, I necessarily restructured some of the feelings the poem captured.
Rankine revised the poem for the second and third printings to include the names of Freddie Gray Jr and other male victims of racially motivated attacks who had lost their lives between the editions.
Revise a little bit at a time, and your poem will gradually become what you want it to be.
Emotionally paralyzed by World War I and its aftermath, Rilke wrote little more until February 1922, when in a burst of nearly manic productivity he revised the fifth poem, completed the remaining five of the cycle, and wrote the 55 poems that comprise the Sonnets to Orpheus, all in a span of three weeks.
Coombs read the revised poem to Choike and asked him: "Do you think the subject of the removal of his underwear was a joking matter?" "No," replied Choike.
Mr. Nelson said: "When Hughes revised his poems, he revised them to make them less good.
He revised his poems on the left to blunt their force somewhat.
