Sentence examples for task of poetry from inspiring English sources

I did extrapolate from Sam Anderson's essay that the task of poetry criticism is to "translate the coded parts into everyday language".

Housman insisted that the task of poetry was "to transfuse emotion — not to transmit thought"; it was to make your throat clench and your hair stand on end.

In poems like this, and in her finest descriptions (as when a newborn's "clear vowels rise like balloons"), Plath makes strange what should be familiar — which is, after all, a central task of poetry.

The task of poetry "is still to point incredulously / at death, a child who won't be silenced, / among the shattered images to hear / what the salt hay whispers to tide's change, / dull in the dark, to climb to bed / with all the dross of time inside its head".

He explained that the task of poetry was to take language, something which is supposed to communicate precise information, and make it communicate something beyond language, something that can't be simply said another way.

The task of such poetry, he claims in this fragment, should be to "fuse poetry and prose, inspiration and criticism, the poetry of art and the poetry of nature; and make poetry lively and sociable, and life and society poetical; poeticize wit and fill and saturate the forms of art with every kind of good, solid matter for instruction, and animate them with the pulsations of humor".

In general, though, Campion handles as well as any director has the impossible task of fitting poetry into everyday life.

This list grows significantly if we include Southern writers like William Gilmore Simms or James R. Randall, and grapple with the task of reading poetry meant to boost the Southern cause.

Indeed, her own poetry began to gain in confidence after she set herself the task of translating the poetry of Russia's Marina Tsvetayeva in the 1960s.

Then take a man or woman born to the task of reciting epic poetry from memory and picking the ripest words out of the air to praise or placate – now you have a griot: the hereditary bard of West Africa.

Or, maybe I can say this: I hope it begins a process by which we turn to poetry as our means and method of theological engagement: on the one hand, the task of theology-as-poetry, and on the other, a serious engagement of poetic methods (art, poetry, song, dance, film, music) as forms of theological expression.