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• Title: Prosopopoeia as a Cognitive Ekphrastic Activity: A Case from Eighteenth-Century Graveyard Poetry/Prosopopee Comme Une Activite Cognitive Ekphrastique: Un Exemple de la Poesie de Cimetiere Du Dix-Huitieme Siecle (William Collins's "Ode on the Death of Mr. Thompson" and Robert Blair's "the Grave") (Critical Essay)
• Author : Nayef Ali Al- Joulan
• Release Date : January 31, 2010
• Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 113 KB

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1. INTRODUCTION 'Prosopopoeia' ('personified abstraction') is a figure of speech that designates the linguistic act of giving human qualities to abstract ideas, animals, and inanimate objects. The attribute 'abstract' refers to words or phrases that name things not knowable through the five human senses. Perhaps the earliest view of personification comes from ancient rhetoric in which an abstract entity is turned into an agent embodying a moral value, so that the value is understood through its personification into personae whom we receive as figures standing for the ideals they characterize. One may perhaps refer to "Mystery' and 'Morality' plays in Middle English literature, the first dealing with what seemed then obscure Christian notions such as Genesis and Crucifixion, and the second with moral Christian values, as domains where prosopopoeia was recruited to help in creating a graspable discourse. By personifying, the abstract figure (such as hope, friendship, love etc.) or the event (like death) are rendered according to a human scale, so as to understand them concretely as personified agents parallel to human beings. Poets, as also everyday individuals, personify when they metaphorically give life to normally inanimate objects or human experiences (feelings, thoughts, etc.) that are not sensed by the mostly acknowledged five human senses. In that sense, poets turn imaginary entities into lifelike actors or agents. As such, prosopopoeia might be approached as a visual, perhaps ekphrastic, technique poets employ to facilitate cognitive reception and comprehension. Hence, we personify to make the world make sense to us, an act the graveyard poets adopted as they dealt with the abstract notion of death. This paper examines the use of prosopopoeia in selected eighteenth-century graveyard poetry, highlighting, through close analysis of William Collins's "Ode on the Death of Mr. Thompson" and Robert Blair's "The Grave", the poetic, visual, and intellectual underpinnings of prosopopoeia. That is, it aims mainly at revealing the cognitive aspects of prosopopoeia with limited employment of textually analyzed verse that is used only to provide an exemplifying background.

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