Descriptive poetry, or the nature epic, as it has been called, may be classed under didactic poetry.
Pastoral poetry is a species of descriptive poetry.
PAGE 80 If there be one example of descriptive poetry relating to landscape which throws upon the mind a complete natural scene during the process of reading, it is the beautiful chant of the Chorus in Oedipus Coloneus.
The distinction is very striking in descriptive poetry.
Description is not poetry because there is descriptive poetry, no more than science is poetry because there is such a thing as a didactic poem.
It is, in this sense, not correct to call poetry in which description is only the occasional ornament of a poem, and not its central subject, descriptive poetry.
This may be a useful indication for us in defining not what should, but what in practice has been called "descriptive poetry.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "descriptive poetry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
