I'd say there is a literary conceit in Homer. In fact a myriad of them.
What do you say?
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Quote by Eleusinian
I'd say there is a literary conceit in Homer. In fact a myriad of them.
What do you say?
Can conceit be pluralised? And also, how many people that frequent Lush have read Homer (or the possible many who wrote, and found their works attributed to that name), and would be able to give an informed answer to your questions? Perhaps if you were to qualify your statements, you may find some discussion arising.
It does raise some interesting implications for many writers in their own work, though. How do readers differentiate between conceit and confident or stylistic writing, and can the authors recognise it within their own work? With regards to Homer, classical language can often be seen as pretentious. Some of my poems are purposely (and sarcastically) written in such a style, and the tags even advertise that. And yet, those particular poems have done very well. Perhaps conceit is not always negative thing.
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There are plenty of literary conceits in Homer. What is your point?
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I've been to Homer – Homer, Georgia. People in overalls usually ain't very conceited... Oh, they did used to have The World's Largest Easter Egg Hunt.
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Well a literary conceit, is something quite different.
A literary conceit is a written code in which the syntax changes to give additional meanings to compliment the text.
Their design was such that only initiated persons would understand them and that uninitiated would continue unaware in their limited reality concepts.
Homer is quite important in western literature as his work, or rather the work attributed to him set the standard for western literature.
What makes literature good in my view is the creation of a multidimensional perspective on the written work.
A literary conceit is a written code in which the syntax changes to give additional meanings to compliment the text.
Their design was such that only initiated persons would understand them and that uninitiated would continue unaware in their limited reality concepts.
Homer is quite important in western literature as his work, or rather the work attributed to him set the standard for western literature.
What makes literature good in my view is the creation of a multidimensional perspective on the written work.
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I never read Homer at uni, but I have read some of his stuff since, like bits of the Ilyad. I thought they sounded like fairy tales.
Conceit crops up in all sorts of writing. I saw it in Shakespeare but can't remember where now. I'm not sure why you've picked on Homer.
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Conceit crops up in all sorts of writing. I saw it in Shakespeare but can't remember where now. I'm not sure why you've picked on Homer.
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