Góngora’s Sonnet 'El Cuarto Enrico yace mal herido'

Autor:	Diane Chaffee-Sorace
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Literature Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory biology Poetry business.industry Comparative literature media_common.quotation_subject Gongora Mythology Art Henry IV Holy Roman Emperor biology.organism_classification Sonnet Baroque Honor business media_common
Zdroj:	Neophilologus. 102:15-24
ISSN:	1572-8668 0028-2677
DOI:	10.1007/s11061-017-9541-9
Popis:	This article is an analysis of Luis de Gongora’s skillful employment of language to characterize King Henry IV of France in the funereal sonnet “El Cuarto Enrico yace mal herido.” Gongora wrote his poem in 1610 to honor Henry who was murdered in Paris in that same year by Jean-Francois Ravaillac. In the text the Spanish lyric poet creates historical, mythological, and heraldic allusions, rhetorical figures, and images of color. In particular, he is adept at forming various types of metaphors. By relating these metaphors to charges on Henry’s coats of arms as well as to accounts of the king’s personal history, Gongora paints a brilliant verbal picture of one of France’s most beloved rulers. This vibrant description of King Henry reveals that Gongora, the baroque poet, was also Gongora, the master of portraiture and expert commentator on events connected to the period in which he and the monarch lived.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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