- Idyll
An idyll or idyl (pronEng|ˈaɪdəl or IPA|/ˈɪdəl/) (from Greek "eidyllion", little picture) is a short
poem , descriptive of rustic life, written in the style ofTheocritus 's shortpastoral poems, the "Idylls". Later imitators included the Roman poetsVirgil andCatullus , Italian poetLeopardi , and the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.An idyll can also be a kind of painting, usually representing a pastor and his animals in a rural setting. They are depicted in a natural way, with the three components - man, animal and the environment - in a harmonious unity, preventing the picture from being either a landscape, or a genre, or just an image of an animal. Nature in this combination is presented in an unsophisticated, realistic fashion.
The subjects of such pictures are usually simple people living in uncivilised conditions, featuring naïvety in their thinking and yet leading a happy and cheerful life. The style ignores the real misery associated with rural
poverty . The approach to the presentation is not humorous, but emotional, sometimes sentimental.Examples:
*Alfred, Lord Tennyson , "Idylls of the King "
*William Wordsworth , "The Solitary Reaper "
*Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , "Hermann and Dorothea "ee also
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The Shepherdess "(featured)"
*Bucolic
*Et in Arcadia ego
*Arcadia (utopia)
*Pastoral poop
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