By Sextus Propertius, Richardson
The Latin poet Propertius (ca. 5016 B.C.) is taken into account by way of many to be the best elegiac poet of Rome. lengthy overlooked a result of obscurity of his proposal and the vagaries of his syntax, Propertius has now emerged as a author of compelling originality and highbrow energy. during this authoritative version of Propertius’s elegies, L. Richardson, jr, makes those demanding poems either intelligible and accessible.For scholars of literature and historical past alike, Propertius bargains insights into the highbrow global of Augustan Rome and Roman society. His perplexities and frustrations, his struggles with himself and together with his domineering and capricious mistress Cynthia, and his exhilarations and depressions all strike an incredibly time-honored chord for the trendy reader.Through an in-depth creation and explanatory notes, Richardson strives to make the poems as readable as attainable, whilst analyzing the complexities and textual problems of the texts. each one elegy is followed by way of an introductory observe supplying a literary interpretation of the poem, by means of complete and exact remark.
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Eliot expresses here her ideal of woman’s role- as a source of order, refinement, and loving feelings. Lacking a mother, the Cass sons have turned out badly. Compare this all-male family to Silas Marner’s, which seems to consist only of himself, a mother, and a sister. Eliot lets you hear the village gossip about Dunstan and Godfrey. While Dunstan sounds thoroughly bad, Godfrey seems good-hearted. But people have been worried about Godfrey’s behavior lately. Everyone’s hoping he’ll straighten him- self out by marrying Nancy Lammeter, obviously the daughter of another important Raveloe family.
In Eliot’s own time, people debated endlessly over which religious group truly represented the universal God. Eliot, however, thought there should be room on Earth for many different religions. NOTE: LIGHT/DARK IMAGERY At the end of this second paragraph, light stands for knowledge and darkness stands for uncertainty. ” This image recurs at the end of the next paragraph, too, in his “dark” future. Yet in the paragraph after that, when he receives his first gold coins, their “brightness” seems simply to mean they’re desirable.
Silas stays late at the old man’s bedside, but William never shows up. Silas falls asleepor probably has a fit- and when he comes to, the deacon is dead. Silas innocently goes off to work as usual. But that night he is summoned to a mysterious church meeting (it’s William Dane who comes to fetch him). There, Silas is shown his own pocket-knife, which was found in the dead deacon’s dresser drawer- where a bag of church money should have been. Silas, knowing he’s innocent, stays calm. But when the brethren search his house, William finds the money (he probably hid it there).