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radiance. The poem was written with a technique akin to the chiaroscuro style one would see in the visual arts. As Dámaso Alonso wrote: "On one side, there is this gloomy presence, that accompanies that which is monstrous, that which is foreboding, that which is surly, that which is grotesque; at the same time, there is the presence of the precious flower and the purest of silver, that which is immaculate, the crystalline, that which is sweet, immortal and beautiful. What we have, in sum, are the respective domains of Polyphemus and Galatea." This radical technique, which in Spain was dubbed tenebrismo, also applies on the allegorical level in form of the characters and symbols that are depicted: life-death, Cupid-Thanatos, grace-perdition, all of which reemerges in the theatre of Calderón where they assume an intelligible form, they bring harmony to the scene with games of light and shadow that pass from scene to verse y from verse to scene. If at the poles we find the limits of the chromatic scale -white and black-, in the interior, the painting explodes with specks of vivid color, dissolve to the oxymoronic that by means of the underlying symbolic meanings construct whole images, characters, settings, thoughts and emotions.
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pues, según la técnica del claroscuro. Así Dámaso Alonso escribe: «De un lado lo lóbrego, lo monstruoso, lo de mal augurio, lo áspero, lo jayanesco; de otro, lilio y plata, lo albo, lo cristalino, lo dulce, la belleza mortal. Tema de Polifemo; tema de Galatea». Esta radical técnica pictórica, que en España toma el nombre de tenebrismo, traduce también significados alegóricos, antropológicos y simbólicos: vida-muerte, Eros-Thánatos, gracia-perdición, que llegarán hasta el teatro de Calderón donde semantizarán el verso, matizarán la escena con juegos de luces y sombras que de la escena pasarán al verso y del verso a la escena. Si en los polos hallamos los límites de la escala cromática —el blanco y el negro—, en el interior, el cuadro explota con manchas de color vividas, oximóricas, que a través de sus significados simbólicos construyen imágenes, personajes, paisajes, sentimientos y emociones.
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Gongora portrays life as being ultimately redeemed by the sensorial experience of life itself. Pleasure is realized in its absence and full appreciation develops as a result of its loss. Thus, beauty and ugliness, tranquility and turmoil allow for one another, making life sensible through their contrasts. What an experience does not entail allows for the intellection of its reality. Consequently, this understanding would in turn merit a deep appreciation for reality and all it entails, particularly during the artistic process. This novel outlook could explain the fixation with contrasts present throughout Gongora's other works.
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Even in paradise, where a harmonious and fruitful relationship between the loved and beloved remains a possibility, love never forms or subsists in a vacuum and is instead constantly tested and reshaped by the external realities that also allowed for it. Love eventually enters into a state of disequilibrium where both exterior circumstance and the instrinsic instability of the emotion jointly transmute the original form. The intemperance of love and the existence of evil as the result neglecting
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develops between this intractable and predetermined outlook characterizing Neo-Platonic thought and that of free will, personal accountability and the uniqueness of individual experiences. The very self-contained and immutable reality of things propounded during the height of the Renaissance, in which entities remained suspended in their particular web of semblances and associations, is portrayed as a specious and unavailing contraption or constraining dogma that thoroughly undermines
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contrast to the courtly poetry of the Renaissance, the love of Acis and Galatea as portrayed by Gongora is grounded in the innocence of physical attraction, something which had been traditionally marginalized throughout the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance. The actual degeneration of pagan sensibility is rooted in the metaphysical hierarchies of Neoplatonism and its populist successor,
1060:“Well, he may please himself for all of that, but what I don’t like is, he pleases YOU, Galatea –just let me at the guy, he’ll learn that I’m as strong as I am big! I’ll tear his living guts out and I’ll scatter his body parts in fields and in your waters, so you can mingle with his mangled limbs.”10 (Translation Bk. XIII of the Metamorphoses ln. 1249-1259) 1377:
distinctions characterizing Renaissance painting. By its scarce and exclusive nature, beauty becomes the unending pursuit or focus endowing the aspirant pursuer with a sense of purpose and meaning. These underlying values are reflected in the prevailing themes of Renaissance literature, particularly intangible beauty and harmonious idealization.
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through the poem, there is a reversal between the role of the lover (Galatea) and the beloved (Acis). This inversion of the courtly poetry popular in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in which women were confined to the role of the humble, reticent and inactive role of the beloved spars with the expectations of the 17th century reader.
137:, which was a contemporary poem depicting the same mythological account. Additionally, the poem of Carillo y Sotomayor was in deed dedicated to the very same Count of Niebla. Luis Carrillo y Sotomayor was both Góngora’s friend and a fellow “culteranist” poet who died at the age of 27 in 1610, three years before Góngora's 1217:; and I have a group of sisters who protect me; yet I was unable to escape the love of a Cyclops without suffering for it,” and her voice choked with sobs. The girl wiped away Galatea’s tears with a hand white as marble and consoled her, saying, “Tell me about it, dearest, don’t hide your sorrow- you can trust me.” 283:(i.e. highly idiosyncratic linguistic modifications, classical lexicon and scholarly references) themselves. Additionally, the ornamentality and detail of the work is further complicated by a profuse usage of classical symbolism and external referencing (i.e. relevant mythological accounts communicated through 1189:
later stages of Roman antiquity. These philosophical trends undoubtedly allowed for the gradual Christianization of the empire. Ribó would elaborate that medieval Christianity greatly shaped European perceptions and taste placing parameters on those of even the most avid of Humanists during the Renaissance.
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focus, concentration and stability of form. “In contrast to the classical delineation of boundaries”, which gives precedence to forms with greater density and texture, the Baroque style sought to dissolve the divisions between the ‘intended figure’ and ‘unintended background’ or apeirion “in favor of
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The injustice experienced on a personal level, of change and of loss, offers a different rendition of what is theorized on the plane of remote abstraction. This is perhaps one reason that can explain the anti-intellectual tone maintained throughout the poem. In the face of destruction and suffering,
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Within the scope of the Polifemo, the presence of ugliness and the grotesque which taints the Arcadian landscape of the pastoral, proves predestined to annihilate both the beauty and harmony inherent in pastoral naivety, something which was cherished in both Renaissance art and the ancient bucolic.
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This underlying difference hints at Góngora's primary concern with form and his concern in capturing the full aesthetic effect through his representation of the emotional torrents of love, jealousy and murder. Stephen Wagschal argues in "Mas no cabrás allá": Góngora's Early Modern Representation of
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Being a work written during the Baroque Epoch, an epoch which favored the profuse use of contrasts in painting more so than any of the other period in Western History, the Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea takes upon itself this very theme concerning chromatic contrasts, the clash between darkness and
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Dentro de la época barroca que privilegia en todas las artes los contrastes a partir de la técnica del claroscuro en pintura, este poema ya desde el título Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea pone de relieve el tema del contraste cromático, el choque entre lo obscuro y lo resplandeciente; un poema escrito,
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Góngora portrays Galatea as both the inspiration whom the whole island of Sicily admires and adores. He goes on to deify her in the minds and rituals of the Sicilian locals. Her femininity remains the unparalleled source of inspiration for all of the inhabitants of the island as well as 'the good'
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that greatly influenced the course of Western philosophy. This outlook begs on the part of the subject a reorientation of all outlying perceptions and ultimately renders all teleological equilibria as purely theoretical conceptions. In the midst of flux, the subject is made a victim of his or her
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or “whiteness” of Galatea, Theocritus and Ovid both utilize the metaphor of milk. In fact, etymologically Galatea can be translated to mean “milk-white.” Nevertheless, within the context of Góngora's poem a reference or metaphor to milk does not occur. Given that Góngora was fully aware of this,
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La noche se muda en posibilidad de regeneración y no solamente por la topología uterina del antro sino por el vuelco mismo de la calidad cromática, connotando el negro, la ausencia absoluta de color, una infinita posibilidad receptiva y regeneradora: campo de epifanías de donde se espera que nazcan
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All of these forms serve an aesthetic purpose of preeminent importance as both capture the melancholic sense of longing and neglect that Góngora attempts to develop and incorporate into the overall narration. Ultimately, it is the poet who goes beyond the mere resemblance and commonality of things
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The eloquence of Polifemo's words as he serenades Galatea is particular to Góngora, which contrasts sharply with the grotesque and humorous classical portrayals of the barbarous Cyclops. Góngora chooses to exclude the image of the Cyclops raking (i.e. combing) his hair and other instances in which
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abstraction of femininity. Some examples are, “más brillante que el cristal” (brighter than cristal) and “más luciente que el hielo” (more translucent than ice). Ribó believes that this transposition of feminine ideal corresponds to the neo-platonic tradition that became exceedingly popular in the
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In these lines, Acis pursues Galatea with a different approach than his wistful cycloptic rival. John McCaw in “Turning a Blind Eye: Sexual Competition, Self-Nontraditional, and the Impotence of Pastoral in Góngora’s Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea” affirms that Acis's courtship stratagem engages the
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During the early 17th century, several scientific and cultural breakthroughs were being made that greatly reshaped Western cosmological perceptions. It seems that Gongora's work reflects this period enmeshed in social upheaval, lingering spiritual doubts and a pervasive feeling of instability. In
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Presupposing the belief that the world resumes under a cyclic progression of infinite transformation, as propounded in the Metamorphoses of Ovid, the situation that originally gives rise to feelings such as love is likewise just as ephemeral or predisposed to change. Within the narrative, tension
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In Theocritus, Ovid and Góngora, the Songs of the Cyclops resemble one another to varying degrees. The two classical poems, which served as the framework for Gongora’s version, are characterized by the Cyclops’s invocation of Galatea which retains both a presumptuous and wistful tone. Some shared
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As stated by Leher, “Góngora is not interested in this story for the same reason as Ovid. Góngora was interested in this particular story for the contrasts, tensions, and resolutions of the forces which it offered, and his innovations and alterations were directed toward that purpose.” In sum,
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Within pre-Christian texts the portrayal of Galatea differs drastically from that of early modern depictions. Certain recurrent images present in Ovid and Theocritus that seem to be avoided altogether in Renaissance and Baroque poems are the mundane associations that pertain to her femininity.
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Theocritus and Ovid have Polyphemus compare Galatea’s physical beauty and allusiveness to natural and pastoral phenomena. The lamenting of Polyphemus is marked by the statement of her rejection of him and his consequent despondence. In Theocritus, “Polyphemus’ four comparisons are with the daily
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metaphysical assumptions maintained throughout the narrative foment a pervasive sense of competition that prompt egocentric feelings of vanity and jealousy, which together predicate violence and destruction. At the same time, the Polifemo could be interpreted analogically as a commentary of the
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Within the Polifemo, Galatea transgresses the established gender roles that were rigidly maintained particularly in 17th century Spain. Góngora places Galatea in a much different light by having her assume a more sexually assertive role. Her shamelessly unrestrained behavior is distinct. Midway
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The night, in its vacuity, welcomes the possibility for redefinition or regeneration and this is possible not merely by means of its concavity, its uterine topology which begs to be filled, but by means of the natural overturning occurring firstly on this very chromatic dimension, connoting the
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innocence of Western tradition, which effectively predicates the licentious and exploitative associations with human sexuality. In this sense, the poem escapes the regular criticism so prevalent in Góngora's time. The bucolic genre effectively bypassed the social formalities, norms, taboos and
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are deeply rooted in a non-Christian pagan morality birthed by Socrates in which excess and evil are the products of ignorance, which can be effectively ameliorated with proper education. Evil is a condition when perceived through the lens of this highly deterministic outlook, which contrasts
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of Aristotle and debated in the literary circles of posterity would never cease to divide artists throughout the modern era. Culteranismo, which was particularly fond of playful obscurity, has consequently incurred the disdain of several critics for its liberal artistic outlooks, which critics
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In the Polifemo, the Arcadian world of bucolic poetry proves just as insecure as our own. The world, as the subject experiences it, remains exposed to an array of hostile outside influences that impinge upon our most gratifying experiences. Whether through a direct or indirect capacity, the
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Beauty itself as a pleasurable distinction amid a multitude of phenomena can only be made sensible through the necessary existence of the outlying inferior qualities or distinct forms surrounding the object in focus. Beauty as a focused pursuit is reflected in the clear background-foreground
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defined it, where the sublime in its dynamic form inevitably occurs at the climax of the narrative itself. The revelation of betrayal is accentuated by an analogous impression of the sublime as experienced in nature. This impression is the precursor to violence, destruction and the complete
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and the Present by denigrating the very sensibility of phenomena. The poem has anti-intellectual undertones and seems to idealize pagan love as a contrast to both Polifemo's unavailing lamentations that mirror the courtly love poetry popular throughout both Medieval Christendom and the Early
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and suggests displacement and alienation. The interruption of Polifemo’s song resembles a “jog in timing which hastens the denouement of the poem.” Thus, while it does not deviate from the unfolding of the plot, it definitely elicits an aesthetic effect not present in its Roman predecessor.
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In Góngora's description of the scenery and the characters of the Polifemo, the descriptions themselves become the focus and take on an existence of their own. No longer are properties subordinate to the objects from which they emanate. No longer is there the subjugation of form required in
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that at times drastically opposed the rigid moral standards later established by the Church. The Polifemo ultimately represents the redeeming aspect of love as it arises from and is consequently destroyed by the inscrutable primordial chaos that gives form to passion. The poem celebrates
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A noticeable difference is in the discovery of the lovers. While in Ovid, the Cyclops stumbles upon them while he is roaming the countryside, Góngora has the discovery interrupt the song of the Cyclops as he is lamenting. As Lehrer goes on to state in her mythological analysis of the
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The Polifemo reflects a change in the aesthetic and philosophical perceptions of 17th-century Europe. Though the poem does offer a critique of former metaphysical and artistic outlooks, the poem is thoroughly distinct in form. The aesthetic focus, for example, shifts towards the
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business of agriculture and husbandry, made special nevertheless by the endearing simplicity of this Cyclops.” In contrast, Góngora portrays Polyphemous as deeply poetic and sophisticated despite his ferocious appearance, lifestyle and the egotistical/antisocial disposition.
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scrupulous attention is given to his physical appearance. In Ovid, this was used likewise for a humorous effect, which was inappropriate for the graver tone set by Góngora. There are several comedic elements to the ancient texts that were selectively discarded by Góngora.
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Though the narrative structure differs substantially from that found in Ovid's version, Góngora assumes a similar plot with the Cyclops's murder of Acis followed by the young boy's transformation. Though Ovid's work serves as the thematic and narrative framework for the
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is often characterized by a breakdown in such distinctions and the deterioration of these established ideals. As with Baroque visual art, within the Polifemo, there is a genuine lack of easily recognizable forms. In turn, this new awareness and appreciation of form
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deviates from the Renaissance ideal, which differentiated forms by establishing boundaries, namely foregrounds and backgrounds where central objects or figures displaced the prominence of other things. Within the art of the Renaissance, there is a higher degree of
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Though other imitations and related works exist, the primary inspiration for Góngora was undoubtedly Ovid who portrayed the tale in a way that conformed to the Metamorphoses's integral theme of transformation where beginnings and ends that feed into one another.
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contradicted the claims of more traditional critics who sought to tame instinct by imposing a rigorous aesthetic framework of poetic regulations derived from the ancients in order to establish a more coherent dialogue with the audience or reader. Critics such as
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In the versions of both Góngora and Ovid, the ending of the poem is one of violence and transformation. In both tales, after the Cyclops laments, the two lovers are eventually discovered, thus provoking the anger of Polyphemus who strikes the fleeing
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style that matured in 17th century Western painting. The striking contrast of the poem rests in the juxtaposition of the dark, gloomy and burdened existence of Polifemo with the figure of Galatea, the paragon of light, beauty and contentedness.
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An interesting correlation of Góngora's poem to that of the classical source is the individual's appeal through his pedigree. The divine lineages of the two suitors, an issue of prevalence within classical works, is incorporated into the poem.
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with a boulder that he rips from the landscape. In both the Latin and the Spanish poem, the youthful Acis is crushed and killed by Polyphemus's striking boulder. Only after violent death is the boy is subsequently transformed into a river.
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The question of perfection, of a harmonious situation where nothing can be added without worsening conditions for individuals and set relationships, drives the narrative of the Polifemo. Essentially, the poem exposits the implausibility of
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black, the absolute absence of color, an infinite receptive and regenerative possibility: realm of possibilities where one can await the recurrent birth of light, of life, of both profundity and form and, ultimately, the esoteric cavern of
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exterior world inevitably prompts a change in the present arrangement in the very same manner that originally allowed for the conditions at hand. Essentially, life as a continuum of contingent experiences reflects the doctrine of
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In addition to ornamental descriptions giving life to the Cyclops' mundane possessions, Góngora often incorporates anecdotes that detract from the overall narration as in St. 50-53 regarding the shipwrecked Genoese merchants.
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Unlike Ovid, Góngora does not opt for such a calculating and cold-blooded portrayal of Polyphemus and instead stresses the impetuousness of the genuinely committed Cyclops as he accidentally catches the two lovers together:
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As stated by Cancelliere in her investigation of the poem's visual dynamics, primordial darkness itself, embodied by the character of Polifemo, seems to be the recurring cradle and grave of all perception or advancement:
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to comb, heaved a sigh and said: “You, dear girl, are pursued by the kind of men you would hardly consider uncouth, and you can say no to them, as you do, without a second thought. But consider my case: My father is
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devolution of the Cyclops to his natural state. Essentially, Góngora pushes the concept of jealousy to its fullest extent by interfacing the human emotion with its corresponding destructive aspect of nature.
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themselves are often depersonalized by their metaphoric descriptions, by anecdote and by the portrayal of their circumstance or immediate environment in which they are blended. In the context of
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It is within the Song of the Cyclops where Polyphemus arises from his obscurity. His perpetual pain and incessant longing drive his lyrics. It is through his situation that his art emerges.
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sensuality of Galatea and triumphs over the “contemplative love” of Polifemo. Acis expresses his desire through means of luxurious material offerings, hinting at the old pagan practice of the
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Ovid presents the tale as a recollection and incorporates it into other mythological accounts of transformation. His rendering of the tale portrays the act as something already experienced.
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comprises 504 lines. Throughout the poem there is an abundance of poetic correspondences (i.e. organic or interior referencing), which contrast sharply with the abstruse quality of the
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symbol for dispassionate truth or enlightenment. The Cyclops realizes his surrogate beauty in the form of discourse and song, which he contrasts with the tangible beauty of a lover.
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There exists in all three poems a description of his unappealing physical appearance. Góngora's song is more subtle and consciously avoids the burlesque comedy found in Ovid.
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Ruster, Michael Bradburn. "Fabula de Polifonia: Harmony and Discord in Gongora's Polifemo." Lucero: A Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (Spring 1991): 112-119.
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Nevertheless, Ovid was not the first poet to exploit the poetic potential of these mythical figures. Though his influence on this poem is less direct, the founder of the
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otra vez la luz, los colores, la profundidad, las apariciones, en fin, la caverna esotérica, sea de Platón, sea de los antiguos ritos iniciáticos y de los misterios.
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representations of Polyphemus and Galatea (as seen in Theocritus), the words of the Góngora's Cyclops are incongruous with his outward appearance and his essential
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Meanwhile, Góngora makes this evident and limits the ambiguity of the extent of the brief relationship and by doing so Galatea substantiates her latent sexuality.
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Theocritus's version ends in the young Cyclop's self-reprimands. Furthermore, The tone is purely innocent and humorous, while hope for another love remains.
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McCaw, John R. “Turning a Blind Eye: Sexual Competition, Self-Contradiction, and the Importance of Pastoral in Góngora's ‘Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea’.”
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There are several notable differences in terms of content that distinguish the Polifemo from its predecessor. As Melinda Eve Lehrer states in her work
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Contrary to Acis, Polyphemus represents failed self-cultivation, convention as opposed to nature, and the fruitless application of the virtues of
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poets as highly affected, superficial and purposefully obscure with the intention of masking poetic mediocrity with highly ornate phraseology.
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and the underlying perception of persistent sympathies that arise between two separate entities was an idea deeply rooted in the 16th century
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see Jauregi's "Discurso poético contra el hablar culto y oscuro" (1624) and "Antídoto contra la pestilente poesía de las Soledades" (1624)
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and perhaps this is the most palpable distinction. The poetic style also reflects the prevalent sense of anxiety characterizing both the
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The thematic aloofness of Góngora's verse contrasts sharply with his purely conceptista contemporaries who valued a verbal economy of
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There are several ornamental additions that detract from the narration that are obviously not present in its classical counterpart:
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landscape through the most unlikely of characters. Throughout the poem the Cyclops's eye is identified with the sun, a traditional
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Góngora seeks to recreate the experience in order to capture the full aesthetic potential provided by the background narrative.
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as described by Robert Jammes and conversely criticizes the intellectualism that needlessly justifies and consequently stifles
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and would influence in turn the styles of even his most malicious critics. The sophisticated metaphors displayed in the
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Baena, Julio. "Tiempo Pasado y Tiempo Presente: De la Presencia a la estereofonia en la Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea."
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Barnard, Mary E. "The Gaze and the Mirror: Vision, Desire, and Identity in Gongora's Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea."
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Ribó Labastida, Ignasi. “Galatea o la leche. La descripción de la belleza femenina en Teócrito, Ovidio y Góngora.”
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demonstrates the fullest extent of Góngora’s highly accentuated, erudite and impressionistic poetic style known as
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Ovid seems to represent Galatea as entirely helpless and passive as she laments over the brutality of Polyphemus:
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Regardless of the charges levied against his style, Góngora would remain one of the most influential poets of the
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Galatea. The pastoral genre was subject to later imitation by other prominent figures of antiquity, as seen in
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O'Connor, Thomas Austin. "Sobre el Bozo de Acis: Una Apostilla a los Versos 279-280 del Polifemo de Gongora."
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was completed in manuscript form in 1613 and was subsequently published in 1627 after Góngora’s death (see
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was completed. The premature death of a promising pupil in a sense prompted the creation of the Polifemo.
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Dolan, Kathleen H. “Figure and Ground: Concrete Mysticism in Gongora’s ‘Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea’.”
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Wagschal, Steven. "Mas no cabrás allá": Góngora's Early Modern Representation of the Modern Sublime.”
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Ricapito, Joseph V. "Galatea's Fall and the Inner Dynamics of Gongora's Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea."
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Carenas, Francisco. "El Lenguaje, ese oscuro y enigmatico objeto: El Caso de El Polifemo de Gongora."
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thought, which stressed upward progression, refinement, beauty and universal harmony Unlike the usual
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Ricapito, Josph V. "Galatea's Fall and the Inner Dynamics of Gongora's Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea."
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would continue to incur criticism from more conservative Spanish poets and thinkers for centuries.
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Despite the sexual overtones of the poem, the Bucolic environment captures the Adamic or Pre-fall
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the Modern Sublime” that in doing this, Góngora fully demonstrates the aesthetic character of the
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itself over that of a more rudimentary imitation delineated by regulations and set expectations.
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Garcia, Luis M. Vicente. "El lenguaje hermetico en la Fabula de Polifemo y Galatea de Gongora."
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celebrates antiquity and the pastoral genre. Furthermore, this introduction involving a Grecian
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is composed of 63 stanzas, each of which are composed of 8 lines in total. In its entirety, the
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See "Nueva Poesía. Conceptismo, Culteranismo en la Crítica Española" by Collard (in Progress)
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Friedman, Edward H. "Creative Space: Ideologies of Discourse in Gongora's Polifemo."
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Ovid is not so suggestive and does not note whether or not the love was consummated.
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genre, Góngora maintains a fluctuating Background–Foreground dynamic throughout the
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a vision characterized by ‘a mysterious interflow of form and light and colour.’”.
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also give the poem greater complexity than that of its classical predecessors.
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Contemporary critics such as Luis Carrillo y Sotomayor would come to see these
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is unprecedented for Góngora in terms of its length, its florid style, and its
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it is interesting that he consciously choose to filter this image out of his
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Furthermore, as Leher points out, when displaying his wealth and fecundity:
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as orchestrator of inter-subjectivity to both imagine and project a kindred
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Cancelliere, Enrica. "Dibujo y Color en La Fabula de Polifemo Y Galatea."
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Though the mythological characters themselves can be traced to various pre-
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Ovid, Gongora's predecessor, portrays Acis’ murder as a premeditated act:
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Raulston, Stephen B. "Vision, Desire, and the Reader of the Polifemo."
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Renaissance in addition to the reemerging Platonic strains of thought.
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Sicily, the setting of the tale, resembles the classical archetype of
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In these stanzas, Galatea's inaccessible character as an ideal (see
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Lovers discovered, death and transformation of Acis – Stanzas 59–63
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Description of Acis and the meeting of the lovers – Stanza 25
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Polyphemus lists his fecundity or material wealth in all 3 poems.
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see Foucault's "The Prose of the World", second chapter within
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The interspersing of the unsavory and the melancholic with the
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160-180. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2003.
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aesthetic and ethical systems of Gongora's time and place.
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Either, they are blocked, when slumber makes you distant
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Either, they’re blocked, when slumber makes you distant
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sharpely with the Judeo-Christian explanation for the
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The consummation of the lovers – Stanzas 38–42
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Translation by Nicolas Marin. 1104:A brief defense, by naked tribesmen carried)— 1073: 998: 956: 917:Polyphemus admonishes Galatea to be with him. 806: 774:By coral trunks that in the sea waves molder. 768:Deaf daughter of the sea, your ears resistant 743: 558: 488: 315:The elaborate summoning of the Sicilian Muse 56:, is a literary work written by Spanish poet 1832:Women in the Discourse of Early Modern Spain 1779:Classical Myth and the ‘Polifemo’ of Gongora 1668: 1666: 1110:So, too, before the livid cloud will sunder, 1013:Whose swarms will April free, if not as many 975:Or, the dissonant clash of clams persistent 943:Classical Myth and the “Polifemo” of Góngora 844:Background, the classical precursors of the 770:Are to my dirges like to winds this boulder: 632: 521:If one is with a rain of gold grains wetted, 266: 149:and poetic liberation in the Spanish Baroque 1797:Boletin de la Biblioteca de Menendez Pelayo 1327:. Unsourced material may be challenged and 821:, of those ancient rites and of those long 776:Or, the dissonant clash of clams persistent 528:They worship, either out of love, or piety, 1813:. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977. 1364:, of an ideal world, given the persistent 1204:“One day, Galatea, spreading her hair for 1102:(Such might sight a Libyan buckler traces, 1100:Of fleeing snow, as to the sea she hurried 973:coral trunks that in the sea waves molder. 175:precepts as artistically stifling. In his 1663: 1410:period and the historical context of the 1347:Learn how and when to remove this message 903:characteristics of classical origin are: 782:My beauty in my voice, not in the lover. 778:—An ocean music, yes, and none is bolder— 492:Lo que a Ceres, y aun mas, su vega llana; 402:by Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo (1665) 27:Literary work by Luis de Góngora y Argote 1774:. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1988. 1539:see Quevedo's "Aguaja de Navegar Cultos" 1098:At last, the giant spied the muted paces 1015:As May unleashes, wax the amber sealing, 656:Paces no al sueño, treguas si al reposo. 572: 394: 223:as well as modern Spanish poets such as 1737:Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas 494:Pues si en la una granos de oro llueve, 463:exposes in his highly influential work 14: 1861: 1758:Cultural Authority in Golden Age Spain 1083:Y al garzón viendo, cuantas mover pudo 1081:Registra el campo de su adarga breve)— 755:—marino, si agradable no, instrumento— 711:. 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329:Imitatio 293:cultismo 277:Polifemo 273:Polifemo 249:imitatio 219:such as 213:Polifemo 155:Polifemo 147:Polifemo 139:Polifemo 127:Polifemo 119:Polifemo 108:Polifemo 96:Polifemo 84:Polifemo 54:Polifemo 18:Polifemo 1848:, 2001. 1785:, 1989. 1506:Poetics 1495:Hanak 3 1408:Baroque 1404:sublime 1362:Arcadia 1329:removed 1314:sources 1130:sublime 869:bucolic 729:bucolic 723:- from 552:Arcadia 413:Baroque 384:idyllic 325:ingenio 245:ingenio 189:ingenio 181:Poetics 167:Poetics 159:ingenio 100:Góngora 94:. 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Index

Polifemo
Nicola Porpora
Polifemo (opera)
Luis de Góngora y Argote
Antiquity
Ovid
Acis and Galatea
Cyclops
Polyphemus
1627 in poetry
Soledades
Góngora
culteranismo
Niebla
Luis Carillo y Sotomayor
Fabula de Acis y Galatea
Aristotle
Poetics
Aristotelian
Libro de la Erudición Poética
Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar
Francisco de Quevedo
Spanish Baroque
French symbolists
Paul Verlaine
Federico García Lorca
Generation of '27
conceptismo
Spanish Baroque Poetry
Renaissance

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