Hexameter

On the Historical Integrity of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride” In history, many feats are told time and time again and become more grandeur with each utterance, to the point where nearly all original meaning is long lost. As Doctor Manhattan said it in Watchmen, “The illusion vanishes, almost before it has registered” (Gibbons and Moore 26). For example, with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride,” this certainly is the case. To suggest that the aforementioned

Sahira Younas In the two sonnets, “Remember” by Christina Rossetti and “The Cross of Snow” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the authors address death and remembrance indicating similarities when exploring grieving process but also demonstrate its differences through literary techniques. They both utilized symbolism, imagery, and metaphorical language but showed differences in tone. Christina Rossetti and Henry Longfellow utilized symbolism to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic

Hecuba and company, but to also determine certain qualities of Hecuba and her daughters that one of the two birds would best represent. Two simple lines in an epic that is just shy of 10,000 total lines (all impressively formatted into dactylic hexameter for the entirety of the text, I might add) induce the reader into a circuitous train of thought that is only halted when the reader decides what they want the text to mean, not whatever Vergil would have wanted. For instance, pigeons nowadays are

God and Man in Homer’s Iliad, Virgil’s Aeneid, and Dante’s Inferno The truest of man’s goals is to create art. Art is a by-product of the gift of man over the animals, creativity. Truly, creativity is a replication of God in man and a very possible interpretation of the Genesis 1:27 phrase “in his own image,” along with others—the possession of an immortal soul or the ability to speak. And creativity’s ultimate end product is art. And art more often than not in the history of man has led man

York University Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Department of Humanities 2012-2013 AP/HUMA 1105 9.0 Myth and Imagination in Ancient Greece and Rome Course Web Site: https://moodle.yorku.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=493 Course Director: Dr. Donald Burke 250 Vanier College dab135@yorku.ca Tel. (416) 736-2100 ext. 70476 Course Secretary: Rowena Linton 209 Vanier College Tel. (416) 736-2100 ext. 33214 Expanded course description and learning objectives

Ovid's new excursion into hexameter is greatly complemented by the novelty of his subject matter (Keith 238). Ovid's subject matter is very broad and unique in its containment of various subjects. Continuing in the epic form, the opening lines of the poem, indeed follow the time-honoured

Homer — attributed author of the Odyssey — is an enigma of mystery and wonder with unique tendencies. Since Homer was born in an era of pre-literacy, much speculation surrounds his birth (“Homer” 6). He was supposedly the son of Epikaste and Telemachus born around 8th to 7th century B.C. However, this is all conjecture since his ancestry is being traced from the Odyssey. Several cities claim Homer as their native son, yet the most compelling deduction is he was born in Ionia; the reasoning behind

Whether Homer was real or not, a group of people, a boy or a girl; one thing we are sure of is that “Homer” wrote two of the best epic poems. The Iliad, which was based on the tenth year of the Trojan War and the Odyssey, which was about a guy named Odysseus who goes on many adventures as he tried to get home to his son and his wife. From what we know Homer was the most famous of all Greek poets because of his written works, his legendary history, and his influential work. “Hateful to me as

literary devices such as anaphoric repetition, iambic pentameter, and iambic hexameter. Bradstreet uses anaphoric repetition in the first stanza, lines one through lines 3, when repeating “farewell”, thus showing her reluctance to say goodbye to her beloved grandchild, Elizabeth. Bradstreet intentionally uses iambic pentameter to mimic and heartbeat, showing the heartfelt and heartbreaking nature of her loss. She uses iambic hexameter to break the rhythm of the heartbeat she has built into her poetry, giving

same tradition of the epic Greek culture, Hesiod shared a lot in common with Homer key material, dialectal, and dictionary features. There are so many reasons to draw a connection between Homer and Hesiod. Both poets self-possessed in dactylic hexameter, and also included the traditional meter of Greek epic, and they did so in an oral formulaic tradition. Just like Homer, Hesiod was essentially perturbed with dispatching traditional materials through oral performance. They both drew a common store