poetic license
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Which may explain the film’s final bit of poetic license.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Rachel Syme’s foreword to the musical book says that this version of “Ironic” turns it into “an inside joke about poetic license and grammatical errors.”
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2024
“Bedewed it with his tears and bid to it an everlasting adieu” is the stuff of poetic license and bad poetry.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2024
Suddenly, what was originally just an ethereal touch of poetic license becomes an extended flight of surrealism.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2021
This second meaning we owe to the poetic license of Mr. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose famous poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner contained just such a creature.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
