poetic license

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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

The language of burning is poetic license, or should be: No one wants to eat rice that’s actually been burned.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2021

What a fraught act of poetic license, and it won’t be the last in this surprising novel about the plight of displaced people.

From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2021

“Cake, cake, everywhere, and not a slice for me,” she recited, using her poetic license to make the poem fit her own circumstances more neatly.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood