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“The subject of it is War, and the pity of War”
“All the poet can do to-day is to warn”
“Dulce Et Decorum Est”에서
인습적인 영웅시에 대해 철저히 비판을 하고 전쟁의 미화된 모습을
파헤치고 전쟁의 실상을 적나라하고 사실적으로 독자들에게 보여준
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- 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
poet is telling us that we should weep over his pitiful plight. In lines 7-8 the innocent boy is genuinely trying to comfort his friend and does not recognize, as the poet does, the ironic discrepancy between the comfort he intends and the lack of comfort he actually offers, for not being able to have one's hair soiled is hardly consolation for having it shaved off! In line 24 the boy's words are
poets that updated the medieval view of history and the morals to be drawn from it.
The poet who best synthesized the ideas and tendencies of the English Renaissance was Edmund Spenser. His unfinished epic poem 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 idea
From about 30 to 19 BCE, Virgil, the Roman poet, wrote the Latin epic poem 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