| 释义 |
poˈeticize, v.|-saɪz|
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
1. trans. To make poetic; to treat poetically; to put into poetry, write poetry about. Hence poˈeticized ppl. a.; poˈeticizing vbl. n. Also poˈeticizable a.; poeticiˈzation, poˈeticizer.
1804A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 141, I think its author has poeticized, if I may be allowed the word, the new and fortunate subject. 1833S. Austin Charac. Goethe I. 315 note, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship..is a poeticized, civic and domestic story. 1874Contemp. Rev. XXIV. 870 The working class was..idealized and poeticized by wayward genius. 1923J. M. Murry Pencillings 189 What he is really lamenting is the absence of poeticisation, of what is called ‘imaginative writing’. 1926Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage 442/2 Poeticize makes -zable. 1961Encounter XVII. 68 Rossetti appears to me a poeticiser. 1965New Statesman 22 Oct. 617/3 In the studio, he [sc. Corot] dropped into tame poeticising, due no doubt to what Mr. Gould calles his ‘vein of emotional immaturity’. 1973Human World Feb. 7 The anxiety Mr Maddox senses in the environmentalists comes to no more than a yearning for a universal poeticized prosperity. 1975Listener 11 Sept. 348/1 Francis Ponge..is obsessed with the external world as a series of poetic or poeticisable objects. Ibid. 4 Dec. 772/2, I found the sub-Dylan Thomas-ish poeticising here off-putting.
2. intr. To write or speak as a poet.
1850Mazzini Royalty & Repub. 169 It pleases you to poeticize over the ruins of an institution, which was sublime. |