poeticize

American  

[poh-et-uh-sahyz] / poʊˈɛt əˌsaɪz /

especially British, poeticise

verb (used with object)

poeticized, poeticizing

1. to make (thoughts, feelings, etc.) poetic; express in poetry.

2. to write poetry about (an event, occasion, etc.).

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verb (used without object)

poeticized, poeticizing

1. to speak or write poetry.

poeticize British  

/ pəʊˈɛtɪˌsaɪz, ˈpəʊɪˌtaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) to put into poetry or make poetic

2. (intr) to speak or write poetically

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Other Word Forms

• overpoeticize
  verb
• unpoeticized
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of poeticize

First recorded in 1795–1805; poetic + -ize

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

poeticize poeticized poeticizing

Perhaps most impressive about Bough Down is that, despite the poetic pitch of its language, it refuses to poeticize its subject.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2013

But what the fans seem to like as much as the social commentary is S. & G.'s whimsical ability to poeticize about the commonplace.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nothing was too great or too small for Updike to poeticize.

From Time Magazine Archive

When we are young we adore and poeticize those with whom we are in love: love and happiness with us are synonyms.

From The Darling and Other Stories by Garnett, Constance

Like Bragg, Barnett relayed in a poeticized vernacular her perplexed and acute socio-personal anecdotes and observations, in regionally accented banter, over tactile, punky guitar—post-Clash in his case, post–Nirvana-Breeders–Liz Phair in hers.

From Slate ● May 18, 2018

He was creating a kind of meditative soul music, in the tradition of Al Green and D’Angelo, but Ocean updated the form with lo-fi interludes that poeticized a digitally born form of attention-deficit disorder.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 25, 2016

When they were still mostly men, White poeticized:

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2014

But the Rimpa version of nature is often highly stylized, posed, poeticized, simultaneously abstracted into ornamental patterns and rendered with fantastically detailed accuracy.

From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2012

The book treats only of the ordinary affairs of men: it is a poeticized civic and domestic story.

From Representative Men by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Unpretentious poeticizing about many of the same urban and exurban complaints that Simon & Garfunkel used to adjudicate so well.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has relinquished a shapely, abrasive precision of language for mistily inflated poeticizing.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Pulitzer Prize has never come his way, but Poet Auslander has been poeticizing for years, is much better known than his newcomer wife.

From Time Magazine Archive

Temperamentally Marshall had nothing in common with the gaudy, poeticizing, rich, vain, bombastic, blasphemous fire eater.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is an extraordinary mixture of learning and naivete, of self-conscious poeticizing and shrewd observation, with dim characters wandering about in a grey, dreamlike fog, bumping into ghosts bearing the names of historical personages.

From Time Magazine Archive