Epic and lyric
There are several points of contact between epic and lyric poetry of the archaic period, although all of them, in their capacity to articulate the differences between these modes of composition, require some kind of nuance and offer interesting exceptions. A niggling impression of inconsistency rema...
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2022
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| author | Kelly, A |
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| description | There are several points of contact between epic and lyric poetry of the archaic period, although all of them, in their capacity to articulate the differences between these modes of composition, require some kind of nuance and offer interesting exceptions. A niggling impression of inconsistency remains, especially given that Tyrtaeus uses the same theme in a hortatory elegy: the poet here makes it clear that the death of an old man in battle is a shameful thing, following on from his call to the young specifically not to abandon their elders, whilst it is both laudable and beautiful for a youth to die there. Connection between summer and wine drinking is traditional in early poetry, and Hesiod's consumption is in keeping with his poem's moderation and restraint, while the Alcaean refraction isolates and puts the drinking first, and in exuberant terms somewhat removed from the well-instructed farmer seasonally resting from his toils. |
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