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Ercilla ’ s depiction of Caupolicán elevates La Araucana above the poem ’ s structural defects and prosaic moments, which occur toward the end when Ercilla follows Tasso too closely and the narrative strays from the author ’ s lived experience.
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The mixture of Classical and Araucanian motifs in La Araucana often strikes the modern reader as unusual, but Ercilla ’ s turning native peoples into ancient Greeks, Romans, or Carthaginians was a common practice of his time.
Caupolicán, the Indian warrior and chieftain who is the protagonist of Ercilla ’ s poem, has a panoply of Classical heroes behind him.
Ercilla and Caupolicán
* Much of the legend of Caupolicán is found in the epic poem La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla, a major piece of literature about the Spanish conquest of the Americas.
Ercilla and La
** La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga ( 1569 – 1589 )
His career and death are part of the epic poem La Araucana by Alonso de Ercilla.
*** Alonso de Ercilla ( La Araucana )
La Araucana is an epic poem in Spanish about the Spanish conquest of Chile, by Alonso de Ercilla ; it is also known in English as The Araucaniad.
But the Renaissance epic is not a genre that has, as a whole, endured well, and today Ercilla is little known and La Araucana is rarely read except by specialists and students of Spanish and Latin American literatures, and of course in Chile, where it is subject of special attention in the elementary schools education both in language and history.
* Alonso de Ercilla wrote the epic poem, La Araucana, about the Spanish conquest of Chile.
He was a major figure in Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga's epic poem La Araucana, about the early Arauco War.
* Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, La Araucana, eswikisource.
Ercilla and Araucana
** Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga-La Araucana, part 1
* Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga-La Araucana, part 1
* Chile-La Araucana / The Araucaniad by Alonso de Ercilla y Zuñiga
Ercilla and poem
The poem shows Ercilla to be a master of the octava real, the complicated stanza in which many other Renaissance epics in Castilian were written.
Contrary to the epic conventions of the time, however, Ercilla placed the lesser conquests of the Spanish in Chile at the core of his poem, because the author was a participant in the conquest and the story is based on his experiences there.
Ercilla, the poet-soldier, eventually emerges as the true hero of his own poem, and he is the figure that gives the poem unity and strength.
Ercilla and which
Alonso de Ercilla refers that Valdivia was killed with the blow of a club, then with a knife a warrior cut open his breast and ripped his still quivering heart which was then handed to the toqui, who sucked its blood.
In addition, a visit to Madurodam inspired Fernando de Ercilla to start the project of Catalunya en Miniatura, one of the largest miniature parks in the world, which was opened in 1983 in Catalonia, Spain.
Thus we see Ercilla appealing to the concept of the " noble savage ," which has its origins in classical authors and took on a new lease of life in the renaissance-c. f.
This last is an indicator of the humanist side of Ercilla, and a human sympathy which he shows towards the indigenous people.
Ercilla and from
Nocturnal skirmishes took place around the Hotel Alonso De Ercilla in Colo Colo and San Martino Street, one block away from the Army and military police administrative headquarters.
His father was Fortuño García de Ercilla, and his mother Doña Leonor de Zúñiga, both from Bermeo ( Biscay ).
* Gomez de Vidaurre, Historia Geografica, Natural y Civil Del Reino de Chile, Tomo II ; Coleccion de historiadores de Chile, Tomo XV, Imprenta Ercilla, Santiago, 1889 Original from the University of Michigan, Digitized Aug 4, 2005 ( History of Chile 1535-1764 )
Ercilla and .
* 1533 – Alonso de Ercilla, Spanish soldier and poet ( d. 1595 )
* November 29 – Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet ( b. 1533 )
* November 29 – Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque nobleman ( b. 1533 )
* August 7 – Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, Basque soldier and poet ( d. 1595 )
In Canto XXI, Alonso de Ercilla described Talcahuano, warrior and chief of the Mapuche who inhabited the lands near the present-day city that bears his name, bearing emblems of blue, white and red.
The origin of the flag's colors would be based on the description given by Alfonzo de Ercilla as those of the insignia of the Mapuche troops.
* Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga is sent on a mission to Zaragoza by King Philip II of Spain.
Outside of Italian and English, ottava rima has not been widely used, although the Spanish poets Boscan, Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga and Lope de Vega all experimented with it at one time or another.
On scraps of paper in the lulls of fighting, Ercilla jotted down versified octaves about the events of the war and his own part in it.
For Ercilla, the Araucanians were noble and brave — only lacking, as their Classical counterparts did, the Christian faith.
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The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.
The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences defines psychological altruism as " a motivational state with the goal of increasing another ’ s welfare ".
Psychological altruism is contrasted with psychological egoism, which refers to the motivation to increase one ’ s own welfare.
One way is a sincere expression of Christian love, " motivated by a powerful feeling of security, strength, and inner salvation, of the invincible fullness of one ’ s own life and existence ".
Another way is merely " one of the many modern substitutes for love, ... nothing but the urge to turn away from oneself and to lose oneself in other people ’ s business.
* David Firestone-When Romney ’ s Reach Exceeds His Grasp-Mitt Romney quotes the song
" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.
George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.
In response, Swift ’ s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.
Critics differ about Swift ’ s intentions in using this faux-mathematical philosophy.
Charles K. Smith argues that Swift ’ s rhetorical style persuades the reader to detest the speaker and pity the Irish.
Swift ’ s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.
Swift ’ s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator ’ s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.
Once the children have been commodified, Swift ’ s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".
Swift uses the proposer ’ s serious tone to highlight the absurdity of his proposal.
In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift ’ s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).
James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.
Johnson notes Swift ’ s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.
He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator ’ s meaning and the text ’ s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".
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