Webster's New World Similar definitions Any long narrative poem regarded as having the style, structure, and importance of an epic, as Dante's Divine Comedy. something worthy to form the subject of an epic: The defense of the Alamo is an American epic. That to the faithful herdman’s art belongs!” noun epics A long narrative poem in a dignified style about the deeds of a traditional or historical hero or heroes. The Odyssey, like its companion poem, The Iliad, is an epic poem, meaning an exalted story of a warrior-like heros journey and dealings with the gods.
Today, the term epic is often used to describe really big or important.
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“What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn,īlind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to holdĪ sheep- hook, or have learn’d aught else the least The Epics of the Twenty-First Century: Classical Poetics in Modern Fantasy Franchises. This epithet enhances the description of the color of the sea. In these lines, the phrase “wine-dark’ is used as an epithet in order to explain the color of the sea. Whose style of speech is very different…” These epithets include “a great sweet mother,” “snot-green sea,” and “scrotum-tightening sea.” Example #4: In Blue Evening (By Rupert Brooke)īrooke makes use of epithets (“a-quiver,” and “April twilight on the river”) to describe the anguish and agitation he feels deep inside him. In this passage, Joyce uses several epithets to describe the sea. Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother…” An example from the Iliad follows: As when the shudder of the west wind suddenly rising scatters across the water, and the water darkens beneath it. The scrotum-tightening sea! I must teach you. epic simile, also called Homeric simile, an extended simile often running to several lines, used typically in epic poetry to intensify the heroic stature of the subject and to serve as decoration. Isn’t the sea what Algy calls it: a great sweet mother? The snot-green sea.
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