It is possible in that case that Bacchylides's image of himself as an eagle in Ode 5 was a retort to Pindar.

Bacchylides's career as a poet probably benefitted from the high reputation of his uncle, Simonides, whose patrons, when Bacchylides was born, already included Hipparchus, tyrant of Athens 527 – 14 BC.

There was a thriving cult of Apollo on Ceos too, including a temple at Carthaea, a training ground for choruses where, according to Athenaeus, Bacchylides's uncle, Simonides, had been a teacher in his early years.

Ceans had participated in the defeat of the Persians at the Battle of Salamis and they could take pride in the fact that an elegy composed by Bacchylides's uncle was chosen by Athens to commemorate the Athenians who fell at the Battle of Marathon.

Much of Bacchylides's poetry was commissioned by proud and ambitious aristocrats, a dominant force in Greek political and cultural life in the 6th and early part of the 5th centuries, yet such patrons were gradually losing influence in an increasingly democratic Greek world.

Moreover Bacchylides's line " So now for me too countless paths extend in all directions " has a close resemblance to lines in one of Pindar's Isthmian Odes ( 1. 1 – 2 ), " A thousand ways ... open on every side widespread before me " but, as the date of Pindar's Isthmian Ode is uncertain, it is not clear in this case who was imitating whom.

Bacchylides's Ode 5 includes, in addition to a brief reference to the victory itself, a long mythical episode on a related theme, and a gnomic or philosophical reflection – elements that occur also in Pindar's ode and that seem typical of the victory ode genre.

Pindar's Olympian Ode 1 and Bacchylides's Ode 5 differ also in their description of the race – while Pindar's reference to Pherenicus is slight and general ("... speeding / by Alpheus ' bank, / His lovely limbs ungoaded on the course ...": Olympian I. 20 – 21 ), Bacchylides describes the running of the winner more vividly and in rather more detail – a difference that is characteristic of the two poets:

Being drawn from sources compiled long after his death, the details of Bacchylides's life are sketchy and sometimes contradictory.

Bacchylides's first notable success came sometime after 500 BC with commissions from Athens for the great Delian festival ( Ode 17 ) and from Macedonia for a song to be sung at a symposium for the young prince, Alexander I ( fr.

All that remained of Bacchylides's poetry by 1896, however, were sixty-nine fragments, totalling 107 lines.

The use of gripping and exciting narrative and the immediacy gained from the frequent use of direct speech are thought to be among Bacchylides's best qualities, influencing later poets such as Horace ( who imitated him, according to Pomponius Porphyrion, in Carmen I.

Frederic G. Kenyon, who edited the papyrus poems, took an unsympathetic view of Bacchylides's treatment of myth in general:

Whereas however Pindar's ode focuses on the myth of Pelops and Tantalus and demonstrates a stern moral about the need for moderation in personal conduct ( a reflection on Hieron's political excesses ), Bacchylides's ode focuses on the myths of Meleager and Hercules, demonstrating the moral that nobody is fortunate or happy in all things ( possibly a reflection on Hieron's chronic illness ).

In the last decade of the 20th century the American poet Denis Garrison developed a two-line 17 syllable variation of the image couplet with his Crystalline, where euphony is the key component and a title thereto optional.

The re-creation of word and image which happens fitfully in the poetry of such a poet as Coleridge happens almost incessantly with Shakespeare.

Jerome's image of Lucretius as a lovesick, mad poet continued to have significant influence on modern scholarship until quite recently, though it is now accepted such a report is inaccurate.

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This image is in fact a double herm, reputedly showing on one side the epic poet Homer ( whom Theognis often imitated ) and, on the other, the Athenian comic poet Menander, who lived two centuries after Theognis.

A « classic image of the Parisian oneirology », according to the French poet Robert Desnos.

Recently, Irish and Irish-American poets have explored Medb as an image of woman's power, including sexuality, as in " Labhrann Medb " (" Medb Speaks ") by Irish-language poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and " Intoxication " by Irish-American poet Patricia Monaghan.

Robert Kelly ( born September 24, 1935 ) is an American poet associated with the deep image group.

The elaborate linking format developed by the editors was also picked up and carried forward with the development of the renga or “ linked verse ” form, in which poets wrote a series of verses together in turns by continuing the image of the previous verse and introducing something new for the next poet to work with.

* José Lezama Lima, poet of the image / Emilio Bejel., 1990

He calls the poet a radiance among men and speaks with gratitude of that sweet image, gentle and paternal, / you were to me in the world when hour by hour / you taught me how man makes himself eternal.

The poem itself begins with a pastoral image of laurels and myrtles, “ symbols of poetic fame ; as their berries are not yet ripe, the poet is not yet ready to take up his pen .”< ref > Hale, James.

The poet also notes the “‘ heavy change ’ suffered by nature now that Lycidas is gone — a ‘ pathetic fallacy ’ in which the willows, hazel groves, woods, and caves lament Lycidas ’ s death .” In the following section of the poem, “ The shepherd-poet reflects … that thoughts of how Lycidas might have been saved are futile … turning from lamenting Lycidas ’ s death to lamenting the futility of all human labor .” The next section is followed by that of the voice of Phoebus, “ the sun-god, an image drawn out of the mythology of classical Roman poetry, replies that fame is not mortal but eternal, witnessed by Jove ( God ) himself on judgment day .” At the end of the poem, King / Lycidas appears as a resurrected figure, being delivered by the waters that lead to his death: “ Burnished by the sun's rays at dawn, King resplendently ascends heavenward to his eternal reward .”

This is followed by an image of the other mountain that reminded the poet of Taishan surrounded by vapors and surmounted by the planet Venus (" Taishan is attended of loves / under Cythera, before sunrise ").

The second is the image of the poet as a " blown husk ", again a borrowing from the Noh, this time the play Kakitsubata.

The image of Villon as vagabond poet seems to have gained almost mythic status in the 16th century, and this figure would be championed by poetic rebels of the 19th century and 20th centuries ( see Poète maudit ).

This image of Iraqi poet Abd al-Wahhab Al-Bayyati is from an article that appeared in Al-Ahram Weekly ( http :// weekly. ahram. org. eg / 1999 / 442 / cu1. htm ).

Negative capability appears subtly in " Ode on Melancholy " according to Harold Bloom, who describes the negatives in the poem as being the result of a carefully crafted ironies that first become truly evident as the poet describes the onset of melancholy through an allegorical image of April rains supplying life to flowers.

" Because " both his manner and his matter duplicate theirs " he finds himself forced to decontaminate his own powers of fiction making or image feigning from those he ascribes to " fictional false poets " and feigners such as Archimago: Archimago " represents the text he poet in the poem might become.

A low resolution image of James Thomson ( poet ), from Samuel Johnson's 1779 Lives of the English Poets.

" Deep image " poets such as Bly, Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer and Wakoski had a particularly important impact on his poetry and creative outlook.

Vishnu swoops down from heaven on an eagle named Garuda, who has four arms in this image, two of which hold vessels that probably contain the nectar of immortality.

In early 2002, United States Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John P. Jumper ordered that one airplane in each USAF squadron and all USAF demonstration planes would bear an image of an eagle on an American flag with the words " Let's Roll " and " Spirit of 9-11 ," to remain until the first anniversary of the attack.

The image of the eagle occurs in Ode 5, which was composed for Hieron of Syracuse in celebration of his Olympic victory with the race-horse Pherenicus in 476 BC.

Tolkien used an image of an immature Golden Eagle from T. A. Coward's 1919 work The Birds of the British Isles and Their Eggs for an illustration depicting Bilbo awaking next to Gwaihir ( a giant eagle ).

The Gotland ic image stone Stora Hammars stones | Stora Hammars III is held to depict Odin in his eagle fetch ( note the eagle's beard ), Gunnlöð holding the mead of poetry, and Suttungr.

In 1921, he created the school's coat-of-arms: the image of an eagle and a condor surrounding a map of Latin America, from Mexico's northern border to Tierra del Fuego, and the motto, " The Spirit shall speak for my race.

The patch also includes an image of a bald eagle, the national bird of the United States, decorated with the colors of the US flag.

Some Japanese scholars have supported the theory that the tengu's image derives from that of the Hindu eagle deity Garuda, who was pluralized in Buddhist scripture as one of the major races of non-human beings.

Image: eagle. column1. arp. 750pix. jpg | Detail of Hubble image.

The left wrist was covered with the ornamented cuff of a military uniform ; the right wrist was bare, except in the case of Jefferson's medal, which covered the wrist with a broad metallic bracelet with the image of an eagle on it.

) The image of a bald eagle with a long ribbon reading " Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain ", taken from the Seal of Iowa, is centered in the middle white stripe.

The thirty-six stars on the insignia symbolize the flight's numerical designation in the Space Transportation System's mission sequence ; the stars also form part of a stylized American flag, forming the background to an image of a bald eagle, the American national bird.

Over a partchment appears the image of an eagle with its wings extended as a frame separated in to three sections.

The badge Order of the White Eagle was originally a red enamel oval gold medal with an image of the Polish white eagle on its front side and bearing Augustus II's royal cypher over crossed swords on its reverse side worn on a light blue ribbon.

The meanings accruing to the symbols grew over centuries, with an early formulation by Jerome, and were fully expressed by Rabanus Maurus, who set out three layers of meaning for the beasts, as representing firstly the Evangelists, secondly the nature of Christ, and thirdly the virtues required of a Christian for salvation: One might note that these animals may have originally have been seen as representing the highest forms of the various types of animals, i. e., man, the king of creation as the image of the Creator ; the lion as the king of beasts of prey ( meat eating ); the ox as the king of domesticated animals ( grass eating ) and the eagle as the king of the birds.

In a 1759 image the eagle is represented with a crown and a green wreath of honour.

They date back to 1472, when Ivan III began using the double-headed eagle in his seal, which, along with the image of St. George slaying a dragon, have been common in the coat of arms since.

The current coat of arms, in use since 1993, once again uses the double-headed eagle with the image of St. George.

At about the same time, the image of a gilt, double-headed eagle on a red background appeared on the walls of the Palace of Facets in the Moscow Kremlin.

In the beginning of the 17th century, with the ascension of the Romanov dynasty and its contacts with Western Europe, the image of the eagle changed.

The first type represented the eagle with spread wings, one crown, with an image of St. George on the breast and with a wreath and a thunderbolt in its claws.

It bears the coat-of-arms of the Múgica and Butrón families, as well as an image of the legendary eagle holding the skull in its claws.

* The Western Gate, smaller than the Eastern one but bearing the same coat-of-arms and the same image of the eagle.