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单词 poesy
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Definition of poesy in English:

poesy

noun ˈpəʊɪziˈpəʊɪsi
mass nounarchaic, literary
  • 1Poetry.

    〈古或诗/文〉诗歌

    they were enamoured of poesy and the fine arts
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Minnesota's first poet laureate, Margarette Ball Dickson, crowned herself queen bee of poesy in 1934.
    • I bet you have your own sheaf of pathetic poesy you want to bore us with.
    • We are enchanted by Bauby's poesy; we wonder at the courage of a man who can mentally survive his ordeal; and we experience frissons of there-but-for-the-grace-of-God horror down our spines.
    • Their miniatures purposefully blur the lines between poesy and prose - short lyric stories that are stylistically reminiscent of the verse-libre.
    • This little epigraph is nothing more than a physical reflection of what scooted across so-and-so's mind while sitting and reflecting on a difficult passage or poesy or prose.
    Synonyms
    poetry, versification, metrical composition, rhythmical composition, rhyme, rhyming, balladry, doggerel
    1. 1.1 The art or composition of poetry.
      诗歌艺术;诗歌创作
      the genius of poesy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Littlewood's vision was not based on Shakespeare as the pinnacle of the English poesy, nor on the literary angry young men being championed by George Devine's Royal Court.
      • How can motherhood, being ‘bodily’ occupied by the everyday common chores, be compatible with lyric flights of poesy?
      • Barron Field wrote off Australia as ‘prose-dull’, and hoped that the wings of poesy - as he fatuously put it - would soon whirl him away to a more amenable clime. There was no question of Australians being permitted to create art of their own.
      • This anti-visual rhetoric of interiority is prevalent in much Romantic writing, from Keats's longing to escape on ‘the viewless wings of poesy,’ to Coleridge and Wordsworth's denunciation of the ‘despotism of the eye.’
      • John Keats described poesy as a ‘drainless shower of light‘.
      • Superstitious turtle Churchy LaFemme was the putative author of many of these gems, though the rest of the cast could be just as prone to poesy.
      • Some of his attempts at poesy almost end up counter-productive.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French poesie, via Latin from Greek poēsis, variant of poiēsis 'making, poetry', from poiein 'create'.

Definition of poesy in US English:

poesy

noun
literary, archaic
  • 1Poetry.

    〈古或诗/文〉诗歌

    they were enamored of poesy and the fine arts
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I bet you have your own sheaf of pathetic poesy you want to bore us with.
    • Minnesota's first poet laureate, Margarette Ball Dickson, crowned herself queen bee of poesy in 1934.
    • This little epigraph is nothing more than a physical reflection of what scooted across so-and-so's mind while sitting and reflecting on a difficult passage or poesy or prose.
    • We are enchanted by Bauby's poesy; we wonder at the courage of a man who can mentally survive his ordeal; and we experience frissons of there-but-for-the-grace-of-God horror down our spines.
    • Their miniatures purposefully blur the lines between poesy and prose - short lyric stories that are stylistically reminiscent of the verse-libre.
    Synonyms
    poetry, versification, metrical composition, rhythmical composition, rhyme, rhyming, balladry, doggerel
    1. 1.1 The art or composition of poetry.
      诗歌艺术;诗歌创作
      the genius of poesy
      Example sentencesExamples
      • John Keats described poesy as a ‘drainless shower of light‘.
      • Superstitious turtle Churchy LaFemme was the putative author of many of these gems, though the rest of the cast could be just as prone to poesy.
      • Some of his attempts at poesy almost end up counter-productive.
      • How can motherhood, being ‘bodily’ occupied by the everyday common chores, be compatible with lyric flights of poesy?
      • Barron Field wrote off Australia as ‘prose-dull’, and hoped that the wings of poesy - as he fatuously put it - would soon whirl him away to a more amenable clime. There was no question of Australians being permitted to create art of their own.
      • This anti-visual rhetoric of interiority is prevalent in much Romantic writing, from Keats's longing to escape on ‘the viewless wings of poesy,’ to Coleridge and Wordsworth's denunciation of the ‘despotism of the eye.’
      • Littlewood's vision was not based on Shakespeare as the pinnacle of the English poesy, nor on the literary angry young men being championed by George Devine's Royal Court.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French poesie, via Latin from Greek poēsis, variant of poiēsis ‘making, poetry’, from poiein ‘create’.

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