epopee

noun

Definition of epopeenext
as in dithyramb

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  1. pastoral
  2. madrigal
  3. epigram
  4. psalm
  5. epic
  6. poem
  7. elegy
  8. idyll
Noun
  • The English pastoral meets its match, not in the city but in the imagination that decides not to pursue the trees for the forest of the moment.
    Kevin Young, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Science emerges as a version of the pastoral, with the physicist as swain.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of pastoral
Noun
  • At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
  • After this is a setting of a Whitman poem for chorus a cappella in the style of a sixteenth-century madrigal, followed by a section in which a line from Dante’s Inferno is sung by a vocal trio in the style of a medieval motet.
    Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
Definition of madrigal
Noun
  • On his plane plastered with Trumpian epigrams, Vance makes the case for Trump’s second-term vision of enhanced executive power.
    Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
  • No one could tell the clock by him; no one could quote an epigram of his; no one could ever remember his being a friend of their daddy—or even their granddaddy.
    E. L. Doctorow, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
Definition of epigram
Noun
  • He is known as the patron saint of bookbinders and wrote an illustrative book of psalms while at the monastery of St. Finnian, according to Discovering Ireland.
    Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Inside the nave, choirs sang psalms, and the cathedral’s mighty organ thundered back to life in a triumphant interplay of melodies.
    Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of psalm
Noun
  • Villeneuve managed to please both the die-hards and novices with his massive epic, creating a commercial predicate for delving deeper into the expanding Dune-verse moving forward.
    Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Hail Mary is both more profound and more playful than a biblical epic from Hollywood.
    Armond White, National Review, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of epic
Noun
  • The Songs of the Jabberwock – as the book is called when seen in reflection – includes one of the most famous nonsense poems of all time.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Universal Pictures shared on X that Nolan's project would tell the story of Homer's ancient Greek poem, The Odyssey.
    Jordana Comiter, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of poem
Noun
  • Streams of information flow into and over each other in an elegy about who was who, and when, and why.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alba Rohrwacher, Pierfrancesco Favino and Valeria Golino round out the cast of this visually and emotionally rich biopic styled as an operatic elegy.
    Travis Bean, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Definition of elegy
Noun
  • Television—as noise, as news, as something to do instead of killing yourself—stalks the text of this lyric, undermining the poetic form’s association with idyll.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Our favorite trips of 2024 took us to natural idylls like the Hudson Valley in New York and Hoodsport in Washington, to perennial faves Japan and Paris, to the tiny islands of Canada and Greece.
    CNT Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of idyll
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