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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... battle , where battle itself dis- gusts the appetite it whets . Aphrodite enters the battle herself not long afterward . Athene finds this inappropriate : the intellect makes distinctions and finds love incongruous in war . But ...
... battle , where battle itself dis- gusts the appetite it whets . Aphrodite enters the battle herself not long afterward . Athene finds this inappropriate : the intellect makes distinctions and finds love incongruous in war . But ...
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... battle is possible for any warrior . It cannot be said , either , that Glaucus is a coward . When he faces Diomede , he begins speaking of mortality and continues , endlessly , about the largely irrelevant story of Bellerophon . The ...
... battle is possible for any warrior . It cannot be said , either , that Glaucus is a coward . When he faces Diomede , he begins speaking of mortality and continues , endlessly , about the largely irrelevant story of Bellerophon . The ...
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... battle , and Hector leads the Trojans right up to the ships , lighting the signal fires that blaze across the plain . By now the pressures are so intense that Agamemnon , weeping like a dark - watered spring , sends the embassy to ...
... battle , and Hector leads the Trojans right up to the ships , lighting the signal fires that blaze across the plain . By now the pressures are so intense that Agamemnon , weeping like a dark - watered spring , sends the embassy to ...
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