The Pastoral Flashcards
It is that mode of poetry that sought to
Arcadia was once ? What was it
It quickly became a
Doubt to imitate and celebrate the virtues of rural life
Real place: small Greek area that developed a pastoral civilization in 400 BC
Fiction
In Greece the fictive possibilities of the pastoral were written by
Theocritus in his idylls
In Rome by Virgil in his eclogues
In 1504 the Italian poet ? Published ? Renewing
His plot about ? Spoke to a deep European unease about ?
Jacopo sannazzaro
L’Arcadia
Fashion and viability of the pastoral
A heartbroken shepherd who finds comfort I. Simplicity and shelter of a rural place
Power, urbanization, the demands made for a new centralization
PHILIP Sidney confirmed this renewal in England with his publication of what is now called ?
In the Elizabethan court the pastoral glowed as a ?
A poetry in which a?
the old Arcadia in 1590
Oblique political comment in power
Perspective of grief and yearning is taken on and rural manners and customs are idealized from the vantage point of a corrupt and treacherous court
By the end of the 16th century and the start of the 17th the pastoral convention had become one of ?
On the surface it appeared to be about an
But what lurked below the clear surface
True intellectual engines of poetry
Ornamental and sometimes fictional view of rural and bucolic life
Huge questions
In the pastoral mode poets could ? Some of which verged in a philosophical subversion of
Was man ? Or
Was the natural world to enter the poem as a ? Or
Would the natural world always enter the poem shadowed by ?
Experiment with these questions
Traditional religious themes in poetry
Made for nature or nature for man
Realistic object or fictive projection of inner feelings
The religious myths of the garden of eden and mans fall
Throughout the 17th and 18th centurythe pstoral convention was
What constructs abounded
The pastoral was still both a
A constant in poetry
Sheperdness and rural
Escape and an idea
Then in the romantic movement within a period of thirty years this historic convention
And there at its center
Cracked open
The embryo of contemporary nature poem
What had destroyed its habitat in the 19th century
In this incarnation the wounded pastoral became a
The industrial revolution replaced the court as a place from which to ? The pastoral mode proved its ? And some of the compelling poems of that century were
Industrial revolution
Seismic reader of the relation between the poet and society
Mourn for and celebrate rural life
Resilience / there to prove it
The best reason for including the pastoral mode is it’s ? In the ? And the importance of recognizing its
Enduring presence
Old force in the newer forms
This convention and this mode can be recognized throughout echoing in laments about
The 20th century
Urban intrusion, celebration of urban hubris, speculations about the future of the physical world right up to new eco poetry
The contemporary poet remains haunted by that strange mix of ? The the pastoral has always offered
Sweet dream and rude awakening
What is particularly interesting is that the speaking parts of the pastoral ? Have been assigned in our time to
The inhabitants of its silent and idyllic neighborhoods of the past
New actors
Name two people and two poems
Poets show their need and their ability to ? While still? Just as larkins shadows and distances make up the
Charles Wright’s dark view of Lahaina beach to Jane Kenyon’s dark let evening come
Shatter the idyll of the pastoral / making reference to it
Violated pastoral of the explosion
The 20th century poets here continue a ?
In the 20th century the pastoral is often the almost?
A nature poem in which the dream becomes the ? Like
Or in which the idyll is ? With a new ? By a poet like
Sparkling subversive argument with all the old ideas once stored within this concept
Invisible distance in the nature poem
Nightmare: Hughes the thought fox
Restated/ pessimism / James Wright
