ENGL 345 Lecture Notes - Ancient Greek
5 Dec 2012
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More than a list - it uses details and precise language to show the reader what the poet has noticed about a certain thing. A kind of catalogue poem (a verse that records the names of several persons, places or things in the form of a list (common in epic)) There"s usually repetition. rhyming is optional. the last line is the most important/funniest. It"s hard to say goodbye to many things, but most importantly, it"s hard to say goodbye to you. Can be traced back to ancient greek times. Catalogues in epic (in the iliad, for example, the catalogue of ships and the comic catalogue) Zeus is trying to flatter his wife by listing all the women he"s slept with and saying that she"s the best. In the 18th and 19th c, there is a change in list poems. Every line starts with for it doesn"t rhyme. the whole poem has to do with his cat.
