eclogue
IPA: ɪkɫɔg
noun
- A pastoral poem, often in the form of a shepherd's monologue or a dialogue between shepherds.
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Examples of "eclogue" in Sentences
- The eclogue of the Island of Love.
- An eclogue is a poem in a classical style on a pastoral subject.
- I unfortunately felt compelled to remove the analysis on the eclogues.
- Surely the Eclogues are bucolic poems and the Georgics didactic works.
- It was at this time that Virgil addressed the famous fourth eclogue to him.
- That's not to be confused with an eclogue, which is a poetic pastoral dialogue.
- The two books are both made up of two volumes, with a prologue, an epilogue, and an "eclogue" in between each volume.
- This same poetry as of a higher kind of eclogue characterizes the second of the great works undertaken by Raphael at the command of Leo
- Being not ignorant of Greek, and finding nothing in the word "eclogue" of rural meaning, he supposed it to be corrupted by the copiers, and therefore called his own productions
- [Footnote 1: 'Petrarch, finding nothing in the word eclogue of rural meaning, supposed it to be corrupted by the copiers, and therefore called his own pastorals aeglogues, by which he meant to express the talk of goatherds, though it will mean only the talk of goats.
- Shelley's "modern eclogue" is prefaced by a disclaimer similar to that of "Christabel" and possibly influenced by it: "the impulse of the feelings which moulded the conception of the story," says Shelley, "determined the pauses of a measure, which only pretends to be regular inasmuch as it corresponds with, and expresses, the irregularity of the imaginations which inspired it"
- We board a 21-passenger white minibus, the price of emissions, at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Indian Avenue, and sit back as Ken Huskey aka White Horse, a 40-year veteran in the energy industry, takes the wheel and the mic, delivering in best AM DJ voice a dazzling non-stop physics-laden eclogue on the 300-hundred-foot-high spears with periwinkles on top, and their awesome powers.