![]() ![]() The lyric poetry of early Greece may be regarded as theįinal form of that effort at self-expression which in theĮlegiac and iambic is still incomplete. But it was not until the rise of the Atticĭrama that the full capabilities of iambic verse were seen. Verse, produced by substituting a spondee for an iambus in Hipponax of Ephesus wasĪnother iambic satirist using the " scazon " or " limping " Of the metre that they represent the polemical or controver Solon s iambics so far preserve the old associations Satire, but satire directed against classes rather than Used by Simonides of Amorgus, as by Archilochus, for Simonides of Ceos it reverts, in an exquisite form, to itsĮarliest destination, and becomes the vehicle of epitaph Xenophanes gives a philosophic strain to elegy. Maturer union of politics with a proverbial philosophy. Is the plaintive farewell of an ease-loving Ionian to the days Lochus too wrote warlike elegy, but used it also in other TheĮarliest of the Greek elegists, Callinus and Tyrtseus, useĮlegy to rouse a warlike spirit in sinking hearts. They stand between the Ionian eposĪnd the lyric poetry of the JMians and Dorians. Self-communing, for which the elegiac form would have beenīut these two forms of poetry, both Ionian, the elegiacĪnd the iambic, belong essentially to the same stage of The expression ot that deeper thought, that more inward It has not the lyric flexibility, self-abandonment, or glow.Īs we see in the case of Solon, iambic verse could serve for With greater intensity than elegy does on the other hand, Iambic poetry can express the personal feeling of the poet Stands nearer to epos, iambic stands nearer to the lyric. Elegiac and iambic poetry both belong to theīorderland between epic and lyric. ![]() The iambic metre wasĪt first used for satire and it was in this strain that it wasĬhiefly employed by its earliest master of note, Archilochus The maiden lambe, the myth said, who drew the first The licensed raillery at the festivals of Demeter it was Iambos ( iapto, to dart or shoot) was used in reference to But almost at the same time another speciesĪrose which had nothing in common with epos, either ![]() Elegy, as we have seen, was the first slight deviationįrom epos. ![]()
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