If he forsook Swift, perhaps, and tried to find some poetic mode in which to couch all he'd experienced.
This poetic mode is much less favored now than in the past, but as Pinsky proves, it is still able to give pleasure.
According to yet another view, The Clouds can best be understood in relation to Plato's works, as evidence of a historic rivalry between poetic and philosophical modes of thought.
These dream-like sequences are shot in a poetic mode.
These basic units of poetic form are often combined into larger structures, called poetic forms or poetic modes (see following section), as in the sonnet or haiku.
Yet, Richardson argues that this was intended, to highlight the difference in poetic mode.
The poetic mode of documentary film tends toward subjective interpretations of its subject(s).
Light on rhetoric, documentaries in the poetic mode forsake traditional narrative content: individual characters and events remain undeveloped, in favor of creating a particular mood or tone.
By the end, Ms. Anderson had run aground, stranded in a long coda in her least successful, most self-conscious poetic mode.
There are also a number of poems that foreshadow some of Lowell's later poetic modes.