What is another word for unpoetical?

Pronunciation: [ʌnpə͡ʊˈɛtɪkə͡l] (IPA)

Unpoetical is a term used to describe writing or language that lacks artistic expression or beauty, and is often seen as dull or boring. There are many synonyms for unpoetical that convey a similar meaning, including uninspired, prosaic, mundane, flat, drab, uncreative, unimaginative, ordinary, unremarkable, and non-literary. These words communicate a sense of a lack of imagination or creativity in writing, and suggest that the writing in question lacks the emotional depth that characterizes truly great literature. When looking for a word to describe uninspired writing, any of these synonyms could be used to get the point across.

Usage examples for Unpoetical

If good taste, culture, and devotion to the Muses could make a man a poet in an unpoetical age, Statius would be counted among the great poets of Rome.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Mickle, mentioning in his Dissertation on the Lusiad that "M. Duperron de Castera, in 1735, gave in French prose a loose unpoetical paraphrase of the Lusiad," feels it necessary to append in a note his opinion that "a literal prose translation of poetry is an attempt as absurd as to translate fire into water."
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
I quote from Wordsworth's Michael, one of the finest things in English literature, yet unpoetical in the first part: Upon the forest side in Grasmere Vale There dwelt a Shepherd, Michael was his name.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell

Famous quotes with Unpoetical

  • If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lifes, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.
    Reginald Blyth
  • A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity
    John Keats
  • may be called throughout prosaic and modern. The Romantic sinks to ruin, the Poesy of Nature, the Wonderful. The Book treats merely of common worldly things: Nature and Mysticism are altogether forgotten. It is a poetised civic and household History; the Marvellous is expressly treated therein as imagination and enthusiasm. Artistic Atheism is the spirit of the Book. … It is properly a , directed against Poetry: the Book is highly unpoetical in respect of spirit, poetical as the dress and body of it are.
    Novalis

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