Idyll
An idyll or idyl (pronounced /ˈaɪdəl/ or /ˈɪdəl/) (from Greek eidyllion, little picture) is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls. Later imitators included the Roman poets Virgil and Catullus, Italian poet Leopardi, and the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
An idyll can also be a kind of painting, usually representing a pastor and his animals in a rural setting. They are depicted in a natural way, with the three components - man, animal and the environment - in a harmonious unity, preventing the picture from being either a landscape, or a genre, or just an image of an animal. Nature in this combination is presented in an unsophisticated, realistic fashion.
The subjects of such pictures are usually simple people living in uncivilised conditions, featuring naïvety in their thinking and yet leading a happy and cheerful life. The approach to the presentation is not humorous, but emotional, sometimes sentimental.
Examples: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King
William Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann and Dorothea
John Greenleaf Whittier, Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
See also
The Shepherdess (featured)
Bucolic
Et in Arcadia ego
Arcadia (utopia)
Pastoral
Translation
The word "Idyll" occurs as such in the following languages: English, German.
Translation(s) in other languages: Bulgarian: Идилия, Catalan: Ègloga, Spanish: Égloga, French: Idylle, Galician: Égloga, Italian: Idillio, Hebrew: אידיליה, Georgian: იდილია, Latvian: Idille, Lithuanian: Idilė, Hungarian: Idill, Japanese: アイディル, Russian: Идиллия.
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