Carpe diem Revisited: Ronsard's Temporal Ploys
Ronsard's lyric poetry reveals an adamant attachment to youth and a pronounced terror of aging, neither xof which is convincingly assuaged even in the Derniers vers. These anxieties, embodied in various corporal images throughout Ronsard's poetic corpus, find their most powerful expression...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1997
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1997, Volume: 28, Issue: 4, Pages: 1281-1298 |
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| Summary: | Ronsard's lyric poetry reveals an adamant attachment to youth and a pronounced terror of aging, neither xof which is convincingly assuaged even in the Derniers vers. These anxieties, embodied in various corporal images throughout Ronsard's poetic corpus, find their most powerful expression in the carpe diem motif, which represents the poet's ultimate attempt to triumph over time and the aging body. Neither explicitly succumbing to Chronos's devastation of his own body nor stoically accepting it, Ronsard's speaker in the carpe diem motif rhetorically masters the lady's time, ravishing her body by the ravaging of old age. Cassandre, Janne, and Helene, all consigned at some point to a shriveled future within the poet's verses, function for Ronsard as his doubles, whose bodies enact the aging the poet so forcefully dreads for himself elsewhere in his work. An analysis of this phenomenon sheds light on the relationship between the human body and temporality in Ronsard's poetic corpus. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2543578 |