Electronic Resource
Cambridge
:
Cambridge University Press
The @classical quarterly
7 (1957), S. 206-223
ISSN:
0009-8388
Source:
Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
Topics:
Classical Studies
Notes:
One of the ways in which a poet may show his quality is by discrimination and originality in his choice of adjectives. Poetry likes to adorn the bare noun; a noun such as ‘the sky’ calls out for an attribute. But in practice the poet has to take care to avoid the cliche. He can seldom write ‘the blue sky’; even ‘the azure sky’ has become trite. He has to search for the epithet which will be both apt and original.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0009838800015287
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