They combine to create the impression of a truly universal conflict. What is the purpose of a Homeric simile? Homeric similes help add color and life to poems. They also are an expression of the Greek idea of the Kosmos as a beautifully ordered universe. What is a Homeric simile in ...
14 Carl Proffer, The Simile and Gogol's Dead Souls (The Hague: Mouton, 1967), 166-82. 1. Epic and Novel 19 about grand results rest uneasily on the tradition's accumulating and ineradicable documentation of fallen empires and vain human wishes. In conjuring up dead glories, the latter-...
Metaphor, simile, and allegory as ornaments of style 3. THE HARLOT'S ART. METAPHOR AND LITERARY CRITICISM 4. Plato on metaphors and models 5. Literary metaphor and philosophical insight. The significance of Archilochus... G. Boys-Stones 被引量: 21发表: 2003年 Figures of Allegory from Homer...
As it is not possible to discuss the whole Aeneid in a book like this, I will present only a selection of representative examples. The presentation of the results of the analyses of the Aeneid is different from the presentation of the Eclogues. This is because the Aeneid –an unbroken and...