Examples of unpoetic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Atlanta and its suburbs are a surprisingly Whitmanesque experiment in pluralism, in which unpoetic concrete strip malls substitute for lyrical spears of summer grass. — Sanjena Sathian, Los Angeles Times, "Sanjena Sathian: After the Atlanta shooting, all I see is the fragility of our belonging," 18 Mar. 2021 For those who thought of the lyric poem as a reprieve from the humming external world, a chance to wrestle with internal contradictions, Rich’s overt politics felt unlovely, even unpoetic. — Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, "The Long Awakening of Adrienne Rich," 23 Nov. 2020

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