The Classic Line: A Study in Epic PoetryFocusing particular attention on "Beowulf", "Roland", the "Cid", the "Iliad", the "Odyssey", the "Aeneid", the "Divine comedy", and "Paradise lost", the author examines the formal rhetorical and syntactical features in these poems. |
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... complex feeling of mortality . In an epic , consequently , the simple line does not echo directly , as the simple ballad stanza does , the life feeling of the poem . In epic , then , the relation between statement and rhythm is one of ...
... complex feeling of mortality . In an epic , consequently , the simple line does not echo directly , as the simple ballad stanza does , the life feeling of the poem . In epic , then , the relation between statement and rhythm is one of ...
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... complex emotion explained in a complex simile - an emotion that Dante , a living man , shares with the striving but resting dead . This immediate fullness of complex and exhausting reference , in this particular twilight , coordinates ...
... complex emotion explained in a complex simile - an emotion that Dante , a living man , shares with the striving but resting dead . This immediate fullness of complex and exhausting reference , in this particular twilight , coordinates ...
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... complex , totally caught in the larger complex of his society at war . And this itself is a small com- plex seen in the perspective of immemorial time , a perspective that Nestor opens up for us . The structure of the similes , then ...
... complex , totally caught in the larger complex of his society at war . And this itself is a small com- plex seen in the perspective of immemorial time , a perspective that Nestor opens up for us . The structure of the similes , then ...
Contents
Folk Destinies | 3 |
The Signal Fires | 49 |
The Man of Many Turns | 120 |
Copyright | |
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abstract accents Achaeans Achilles action Adam Aeneas Aeneid Agamemnon Alexandrian allegorical analogy angels ballad battle become Beowulf caesura Callimachus Catullus character classical comes complex contrast Dante Dante's death destiny diction earth echo Eclogues effect emotional end-stopped epic poem epithet feeling fictive figure fire Georgics give gods half-line Hector Helen hero hero's hexameter Homer human Iliad imagined implied ivory gate language light literal lyric meaning Menelaus metaphor Milton mortality moves mystery myth narrative natural ness Nestor norm Odysseus once pain Paradise Lost particular Patroklos pattern Phaeacians physical poem's poet poetic poetry precision present Priam Propertius Purgatory refined style rhetorical rhyme rhythm rhythmic Roland Satan Scyld sense shepherd simile simple single souls speaks speech spiritual stands statement structure syllables syntactic syntax Theocritus tion transcends Trojans trope Troy umbrae Unferth verb Vergil Vergilian verse voice weeping whole words wounded Zeus