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Recent Examples of epos
Your freestyle at Harvard University in 2016 was searing and soaring epos.
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New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
New York Times, 1 Nov. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for epos
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Celebrated author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn brings Homer’s great epic to vividly poetic new life.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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This film, released in 2023, is Scorsese’s historical crime epic about the Osage murders of the 1920s.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
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At the juncture between postwar noir and golden-age melodrama is Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a saturnine elegy to a lost Hollywood of the silent era, when faces and charisma were more desirable than voices or talent.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
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Harmony Holiday’s elegy/essay for D’Angelo is a stunning piece of writing.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
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That celebrated epigram is delivered by the character of Octave, who is the greatest creation of Renoir’s career—not least because he’s played by Renoir in a performance that’s essentially a self-portrait, even an onscreen self-creation.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 July 2025
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It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story.—
Jann E. Freed,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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On Friday, the experimental singer released her third LP, Heroina — an ode to femininity that features collaborations with Karol G, Kenia Os, Pabllo Vittar, and Tokischa.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
31 Oct. 2025
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The name Snug Harbor is an ode to a bar that used to be in the cannery area in the ’50s.—
Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
29 Oct. 2025
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Seamus Heaney’s sonnets about Northern Ireland in the 1970s and Annie Ernaux’s memoirs of France in the 1960s propose indirect but approachable ways of engaging with personal and national history.—
Walt Hunter,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
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When women and men speaking Cervantes’ tongue are sent to concentration camps like the South Florida Detention Facility or CECOT, then what use is a sonnet?—
Ed Simon
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Is this poem still quoted in pop culture?—
Amber McBride,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Her poem is about her broken home, literal and figurative.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
5 Nov. 2025
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Ginsberg’s incantatory dithyrambs pulled the Beats, Walt Whitman and much of 20th century poetry into view.—
Sesshu Foster,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2023
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This is a lovely fundraiser to assist in the preservation of the cemetery, and the day is filled with master gardeners offering advice, madrigals singing, an archaeology talk, refreshments, kids’ activities and lots of lovely spring plants for sale.—
Janet Kusterer,
Baltimore Sun,
25 Mar. 2025
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The service and concert will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, at the church, 815 S. Washington St. Castle Singers are vocalists who perform a variety of chamber repertoire, varying from Renaissance madrigals and motets to contemporary pop and vocal jazz.—
Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Epos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epos. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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