eclogue

eclogue • \ECK-log\ • noun. : a poem in which shepherds converse. Examples: Modern critics tend to have little tolerance for the idealized world of the old eclogues, in which poverty is bathed in golden light. "[

Pastoral is a contemplative form. Created in the midst of social turmoil and political convulsion, the Eclogues constitute a meditation on the emotional, intellectual and moral dislocation of contemporary man.

eclogue, a short pastoral poem, usually in dialogue, on the subject of rural life and the society of shepherds, depicting rural life as free from the complexity and corruption of more civilized life.

Definitions of eclogue. a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life. synonyms: bucolic, idyl, idyll.

How to use eclogue in a sentence

• In the eclogue this danger is earnestly discussed by the two Yorkshire farmers, Roger and Willie.
• The title (as indeed the principal subject of the eclogue) was in consequence altered from 'Lansdown' to 'Jekyll.

10 earliest certain work is the Eclogues, a collection of 10 pastoral poems composed between 42 and 37 bce.

A brief, dramatic pastoral poem, set in an idyllic rural place but discussing urban, legal, political, or social issues. Bucolics and idylls, like eclogues, are pastoral poems, but in nondramatic form.

Eclogue 10 Virgil transforms this remote, mountainous, and myth-ridden region of Greece, homeland of Pan, into the original and ideal place of pastoral song, thus founding a richly resonant tradition in western literature and the arts. This eclogue is the origin of the phrase omnia vincit amor ("love conquers all").

dramatic pastoral poem A brief, dramatic pastoral poem, set in an idyllic rural place but discussing urban, legal, political, or social issues. Bucolics and idylls, like eclogues, are pastoral poems, but in nondramatic form.

The form of the word eclogue in contemporary English developed from Middle English eclog, which came from Latin ecloga, which came from Greek eklogē (ἐκλογή) in the sense 'selection, literary product' (which was only one of the meanings it had in Greek).

: a word having the same or almost the same meaning as another word in the same language.

The form of the word eclogue in contemporary English developed from Middle English eclog, which came from Latin ecloga, which came from Greek eklogē (ἐκλογή) in the sense 'selection, literary product' (which was only one of the meanings it had in Greek).