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Macabre vs Poean - What's the difference?

macabre | poean |

As adjectives the difference between macabre and poean

is that macabre is representing or personifying death while poean is pertaining to (1809-1849), american writer and poet best known for tales of mystery and the macabre, or to his works.

macabre

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Representing or personifying death.
  • * 1941 , George C. Booth, Mexico's School-made Society , page 106
    • There are four fundamental figures. One is a man measuring and comparing his world In front of him is a macabre figure, a cadaver ready to be dissected. This symbolizes man serving mankind. The third figure is the scientist, the man who makes use of the information gathered in the first two fields of mensurable science.
  • Obsessed with death or the gruesome.
  • * 1993 , Theodore Ziolkowski, "Wagner's Parsifal'' between Mystery and Mummery", ''in'' Werner Sollors (ed.), ''The Return of Thematic Criticism , pages 274-275
    • Indeed, in the 1854 draft of Tristan he planned to have Parzival visit the dying knight, and both operas display the same macabre obsession with bloody gore and festering wounds.
  • Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.
  • * 1927 [1938], , Introduction
    • The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from every-day life.

    Synonyms

    * (ghastly) ghastly, horrifying, shocking, terrifying

    Derived terms

    * danse macabre

    References

    Anagrams

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    poean

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to (1809-1849), American writer and poet best known for tales of mystery and the macabre, or to his works.
  • * 1902 , Edgar Allan Poe, James Albert Harrison, Robert Armistead Stewart, Charles William Kent, The complete poetical works of Edgar Allan Poe
    • The reader may judge for himself of the Poean echoes in the following stanzas from the collections of 1851 and 1853...
  • * 1917 , Rosenbach Company, Books, Broadsides, and Autograph Letters Relating to America
    • The British character, customs and literary men are treated with a typically Poean vindictiveness.
  • * 1986 , Jack Sullivan, The Penguin encyclopedia of horror and the supernatural
    • The Poean hero must know what lies shrouded in mystery...

    See also

    * Poesque

    Anagrams

    * English eponyms