poetry是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 诗歌， 诗集，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was tall in person, and had rather stern features; but there was an exceeding sweetness in his look, and a stamp of Highland poetry about his whole bearing.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Recite it!I want to hear this poem!I have hated poetry all my life.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The imagery of the Indian, both in his poetry and in his oratory, is oriental; chastened, and perhaps improved, by the limited range of his practical knowledge.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lady of the caravan sat at one window in all the pride and poetry of the musical instruments, and little Nell and her grandfather sat at the other in all the humility of the kettle and saucepans, while the machine jogged on and shifted the darkening prospect very slowly.
-- Ask the perfumers, ask the blacking-makers, ask the hatters, ask the old lottery-office-keepers ask any man among 'em what my poetry has done for him, and mark my words, he blesses the name of Slum.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Mysticism without poetry is superstition, and poetry without mysticism is prose," she continued, smiling sadly, still keeping her eye on the servant, who was smoothing down the curtain.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But I had some poetry repeated to me, much easier than that, by Tweedledee, I think it was.'
-- 'As to poetry, you know,' said Humpty Dumpty, stretching out one of his great hands, 'I can repeat poetry as well as other folk, if it comes to that ''Oh, it needn't come to that!'
-- Alice asked, for she had heard a good deal of poetry that day.
-- 'Do you know, I've had such a quantity of poetry repeated to me to-day,' Alice began, a little frightened at finding that, the moment she opened her lips, there was dead silence, and all eyes were fixed upon her; 'and it's a very curious thing, I think every poem was about fishes in some way.
-- 'By the way, Kitty, if only you'd been really with me in my dream, there was one thing you would have enjoyed I had such a quantity of poetry said to me, all about fishes!To-morrow morning you shall have a real treat.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He related his fishing, and his combats, with natural poetry of expression; his recital took the form of an epic poem, and I seemed to be listening to a Canadian Homer singing the Iliad of the regions of the North.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tragedies and cravats, poetry and pickles, garden seeds and long letters, music and gingerbread, rubbers, invitations, scoldings, and puppies.
-- Meg obediently following the long grass-blade which her new tutor used to point with, read slowly and timidly, un-consciously making poetry of the hard words by the soft intonation of her musical voice.
-- Bent on showing that he was not offended, he made him-self as agreeable as possible, wound cotton for Meg, recited poetry to please Jo, shook down cones for Beth, and helped Amy with her ferns, proving himself a fit person to belong to the 'Busy Bee Society'.
-- After that we got on better, and now I read my les-sons pretty well, for this way of studying suits me, and I can see that the grammar gets tucked into the tales and poetry as one gives pills in jelly.
-- asked Hannah, who wisely mingled poetry and prose.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!'
-- 'I have been used to consider poetry as the FOOD of love,' said Darcy.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had not the poetry in him that would seek a woman out under such circumstances and console her for the tragedy of life.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This young girl kept a scrap-book when she was alive, and used to paste obituaries and accidents and cases of pa-tient suffering in it out of the Presbyterian Observer, and write poetry after them out of her own head.
-- If Emmeline Grangerford could make poetry like that before she was fourteen, there ain't no telling what she could a done by and by.
-- Buck said she could rattle off poetry like nothing.
-- Poor Emmeline made poetry about all the dead people when she was alive, and it didn't seem right that there warn't nobody to make some about her now she was gone; so I tried to sweat out a verse or two myself, but I couldn't seem to make it go some-how.
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