What is Epic?
Epic A long narrative poem in elevated stature presenting characters of high position in adventures forming an organic whole through their relation to a central heroic figure and through their development of episodes important to the history of a nation or race.
9 characteristic of Epic
1. It opens in medias res.
- Iliad (9th c. BCE) and the Odyssey (9th c. BC), by Homer
John Dryden (9 Aug 1631 – 30 April 1700), nicknamed Town-Bayes, an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England.
Born in the village rectory of Aldwincle, Northamptonshire. The eldest of 14 children of Eramus Dryden and Mary Pickering – an Parliamentary supporting family with Puritan learnings.
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I am mad for it to be in contact with me
this "contact" begins the poem's first catalogue as "Images and perceptions rush in free association from the unconscious, and the poet sees and feels as would never be possible with intellectual control" (175).
- Born on 9th December 1608.
- His family was wealthy.
- During the tour of the Continent
and upon his return to England, John was planning out poetic epics and tragedies
- He had a pretty strange schedule.
He woke at four every morning and
listened to his assistant reading the Bible to him, in the original Hebrew.
- Died on 8 November 1674.
A college friend of John Milton fro
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- 형식적 측면을 주로 가리키는 문학의 한 장르.
- 일정한 형식에 의하여 통합된 언어의 울림 ·리듬 ·하모니 등의 음악적 요소와 언어에 의
한 이미지 ·시각 등 회화적 요소에 의해 독자의 감각이나 감정에 호소하고 또는 상상력
을 자극하여 깊은 감명을 던져 주는 것을 목적으로 하는 문
poem, in fact, is a protest against the harm that society causes its children by exploiting them for labor of this kind. In each case the dramatic irony arises from the poet's knowing more or seeing more than the child does, but in each case also the boy's ignorance testifies to his good heart and likable innocence.
The dream in lines 11-20 is obviously a wish-fulfillment dream, though Blake wou
poem이나 프랑스어의 po럐e lyrique는 본시 lyre(七絃琴)에 맞추어 노래 불렀던 데서 온 호칭이다. 서사시(epicpoem)는 민족·국가의 역사나 영웅의 사적(事蹟)과 사건을 따라가며 소설적으로 기술하는 것인데 그리스의 《일리아스》 《오디세이아》, 프랑스의 《롤랑의 노래》 등이 이에 해당한다. 극시(dra
From about 30 to 19 BCE, Virgil, the Roman poet, wrote the Latin epicpoem when Rome was going through chaos due to civil war. Augustus thought that the Roman, which had long been scarred by civil war, should be healed and reorganized. To establish peace in Rome, he had to remind Rome's glorious past to put forward patriotism and present a vision for Rome's future. To meet these demands of the ti
epicpoem The Faerie Queen (1596) is a treasure house of romance, allegory, adventure, Neoplatonic ideas, patriotism, and Protestant morality, all presented in a variety of literary styles. The ideal English Renaissance man was Sir Philip Sidney-scholar, poet, critic, courtier, diplomat, and soldier-who died in battle at the age of 32. His best poetry is contained in the sonnet sequence Astrophel
epic 중에서 가장 성공한 작품으로 알려지게 되었다.
Setting : 1700년대 초 런던
작품 형식
Mock epic(=heroi-comical poem): 의사영웅시, 의서사시
- 17-18C에 유행
- 저속한 주제에 격조 높은 문체사용
- 영웅의 공적을 노래한 서사시 heroic poetry를 희화화한 parody풍의 시를 말한다
A type of satire: 하찮고 보잘