119 Metaphors for poetry

In Memoriam, Idylls of the King, The Princess,-here are three widely different poems; yet the theme of each, so far as poetry is a kind of spiritual philosophy and weighs its words before it utters them, is the orderly development of law in the natural and in the spiritual world.

The first poetry of a nation will not be religious poetry: the nation must have a history at least before it can possess any material capable of being cast into the mould of religious utterance; but, the nation once possessed of this material, poetry is the first form religious utterance will assume.

It was no play upon words, but the expression of conviction when he wrote, in 1836: "Poetry is incorporation of the spirit, spiritualization of the body, feeling of the understanding, and thought of the feeling."

It is probable that about this time Spenser's genius began first to distinguish itself; for the Shepherd's Calendar, which is so full of his unprosperous passion for Rosalind, was amongst the first of his works of note, and the supposition is strengthened, by the consideration of Poetry's being frequently the offspring of love and retirement.

This he does in what he says was a common phrase that "poetry is vocal painting, and painting, silent poetry."

In such a poem as Milton's, whatever is in it is its poetry; the poetry of Paradise Lost is justParadise Lost!

With not a few, while other, and severer branches of study are the laborious task of the day, poetry is the slipshod amusement of the evening.

The poetry of these men is the denial, passionately made, of everything the world prizes.

The same struggle between head and heart, between reason and intuition, goes on to-day, and that is one reason why Arnold's poetry, which wavers on the borderland between doubt and faith, is a favorite with many readers.

"Poetry was an angel in his breast," making his heart glad with her heavenly presence; he did not "make her his drudge, his maid-of- all-work," as professional verse-makers do.

The only poetry of Milton's belonging to the years 1640-1660 are a few sonnets of the pure Italian form, mainly called forth by public occasions.

'Poetry is emotion remembered in tranquillity.'

I sighed with pleasure to look on them at that time; I sigh now, with far more pleasure than pain, to look back on them, for they never come across me but with delight; and poetry is a world in which nothing beautiful ever thoroughly forsakes us.]

On Windsor Forest, he declares, I think without proof, that descriptive poetry was by no means the excellence of Pope; he draws this inference from the few images introduced in this poem, which would not equally belong to any other place.

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POETRY, devotional, iii. 358, n. 3; iv. 39; mediocrity in it, ii. 351; modern imitators of the early poets, ii. 136, 212; iii. 158-160; translated, cannot be, iii. 36, 257; what is poetry?

Poetry alone is the voice of the spiritual world, and we, who are not poets, must borrow the language of the gifted sons of Song.

The finest poetry was first experience; but the thought has suffered a transformation since it was an experience.

Always his poetry had been the utterance of his essential being.

To Emmeline this was a great privation, as poetry and music had ever been her chief delights, and the loss of even one night's enjoyment was felt severely; but she acquiesced without a murmur, appreciating the truth of her father's remark, that it was impossible to pay attention to the Sabbath duties when the previous evening had been thus employed.

Poetry was a compound of doctrina and eloquentia, in other words of theology and style, in verse.

Poetry also is well represented, the selections being in large part suggested by Scripture.

If Poetry is the prophet of the future, music expresses all emotions,love, joy, fear, above all, aspiration.

If elegiac poetry is the expression of subjective emotion, sentiment, and thought, we might class this Persian masterpiece as elegy; but an elegy is a sustained train of connected imagery and reflection.

"Poetry is a thing for school-boys and bread and butter Misses, who fancy themselves in lovenot for men!" Roundjacket groaned.

119 Metaphors for  poetry