But the archaisms, the "unpoetical" diction, and especially the disregard of tense coherence in the poem as we now have it, contribute greatly to the atmosphere of romance -- as of a story removed alike from the commonplace experience of every day and from familiar literary conventions -- which it was Coleridge's intention to produce. ❋ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1803)
Arnold's solution was to transcend or transmute - or avoid - the unpoeticality, Clough's to represent it: he is the "unpoetical" poet. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It seems that the Heathen Goddesses had a knack of flying just when and where they pleased, but as I have very little knowledge of, or acquaintance with these lasses I do not think it unpoetical to declare that I had much rather see a real bonafida, terrestreal lady swinging between two Trees. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Sun, the Moon, the Sea, and Men and Women who are creatures of impulse are poetical and have about them an unchangeable attribute—the poet has none; no identity—he is certainly the most unpoetical of all of God's ❋ Unknown (2009)
"Wordsworthian or egotistical sublime" — the poet argues that "poetical Character itself ... has no self," since "it is everything and nothing," and he then argues further that the poet "is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no identity ... he has no self" (501). ❋ Unknown (2007)
Right now NASA is conducting a survey to determine the name of the latest addition to the International Space Station ISS, which is currently dubbed the entirely unpoetical Node 3″. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I find the sex act among humans messy , unpoetical ,, unhygienic and body craving , I mean sex must start between two minds first in unison , before it reaches the abysmal low where one body sticks to another body. ❋ Photographerno1 (2009)
He seems, though his verses are as obscure as unpoetical, to intimate that the violence done to the bridegroom was by the intervention of the foul fiend, to whom the young lady had resigned herself, in case she should break her contract with her first lover. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Imogen … A Poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no Identity, he is continually filling in for and filling some other ❋ Unknown (2005)
And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm of them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The Spartans, though an unpoetical race, were nevertheless lovers of poetry; they had been stirred by the Elegiac strains of Tyrtaeus, they had crowded around Hippias to hear his recitals of Homer; but in this they resembled the citizens of the timocratic rather than of the ideal State. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Some of the Medical Remains of Lord Bacon in the book for his own use, “Of the Prolongation of Life,” will move a smile in the unpoetical practitioner of the Medical College. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Pet returned, very dirty and hungry, and cross, and most unpoetical. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Now, it seems to me that the transmutation of the crude and heretofore unpoetical materials which he found in the New World into what is as absolute a creation as exists in literature, was a distinct work of the imagination. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Through the taste and improvement of this gentleman, it is now a beautiful spot, although fifteen years since it presented a very bare and unpoetical aspect. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The truth is, they are highly unpoetical fellows, as well they may be, connected as they are with the Grecian mythology. ❋ Unknown (2004)
(She had it always alone, that no one should see her performing this unpoetical function.) ❋ Unknown (2003)
"Mary [treated] that table so well [after hours] of service. They [tipped] her $1. That's some unpoetic justice"
When the wrong thing happens when the right thing should. ❋ Cassiusklay (2022)
