Poetic diction abounds in bold figures of speech, and unusual collocations of words.
And this, we may remark by the way, seems to point to the true theory of poetic diction; and to suggest the true answer to as much as is erroneous of Wordsworth's celebrated doctrine on that subject.
No pains are spared, no profusion of ornament, no splendour of poetic diction, to set off the meanest things.
A rich distilled perfume emanates from it like the breath of genius; a golden cloud envelopes it; a honeyed paste of poetic diction encrusts it, like the candied coat of the auricula.
It was probably in direct imitation of Burns, as well as in direct opposition to the prevailing habits of the eighteenth century, that he conceived the theory of poetic diction which he defended in prose and exemplified in verse.
On the other hand, he borrowed from Milton, and used more and more as he grew older, a distinctly stiff and unvernacular form of poetic diction itself.
Coleridge's description of Wordsworth's theory of poetic diction in the Biographia Literaria is famous.
As a matter of fact, what Coleridge has to say on poetic diction is prolix and perilously near commonplace.
We feel that we are drawing near to the "poetic diction" of the eighteenth century.
He has "no figures nor no fantasies, which busy passion draws in the brains of men:" neither the gorgeous machinery of mythologic lore, nor the splendid colours of poetic diction.
And some of our own poetry, which has been most admired, is only poetry in the rhyme, and in the studied use of poetic diction.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poetic diction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
