FEATURES OF AN IDYLL POEM

Wrote by Literary Lobby December 19, 2022 Post Comment

FEATURES OF AN IDYLL POEM:

The main features of an idyll are nature and natural imagery used to celebrate the rural lifestyle.

Idylls are often, but not always, narrative poems.

They usually show a "noble savage" character, someone who is unsophisticated but has a deep connection to nature.

Idylls often depict shepherds or other people from rural settings who live a slower, rather than a busy life that the poet shows as admirable.

One very famous example of an idyll is John Milton's "Lycidas".

In this poem, Milton calls back to the very first idyll poem written in the third century B.C. Milton describes nature mourning to the death of a young shepherd named Lycidas and uses his death as a metaphor for the loss of innocence.

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FEATURES OF AN IDYLL POEM