Idyll

a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus' short pastoral poems, the Idylls

[|other definition!] An Idyll can be described as: Idyll website for video and quiz: []
 * a simple poem or other piece of writing that describes peaceful country life
 *  a happy and enjoyable scene or experience CN

a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment b :  a narrative poem (as Tennyson's //Idylls of the King//) treating an epic, romantic, or tragic theme

Definition: An idealized very happy scene. It's Picture Perfect Ex. Siegfried Sassoon In the grey summer garden I shall find you With day-break and the morning hills behind you. There will be rain-wet roses; stir of wings; And down the wood a thrush that wakes and sings. Not from the past you’ll come, but from that deep Where beauty murmurs to the soul asleep: And I shall know the sense of life re-born From dreams into the mystery of morn Where gloom and brightness meet. And standing there Till that calm song is done, at last we’ll share The league-spread, quiring symphonies that are Joy in the world, and peace, and dawn’s one star.

Example of an Idyll :

code Emerald hills undulate as curtains drawn upon a wavy, navy blue sea which glides and surfs to greet a sandy shore awash in curling smile of golden warmth….

Porpoises swim circles in deep lagoon rolling and coasting near the turquoise reef where corals part to form a short passage leading straight to a palm that leans and sways reaching forward across beach so breezy clicking coconut fronds’ finest hello...... Laden with huge, orange nuts so cheery centerpiece amidst the lush greenery draping the soft sand stretching alongside ending at basaltic rock’s firm embrace..... From this welcoming tree a well-worn path follows and leaps over a brook’s smooth stones to reach a hut with woven bamboo walls.... Little hovel nestles in encircling ring of domed boulders and giant ancient trees filtering sunbeams crossing azure skies.... Herein, lies a piece of my heart captured lingering, lost, ever in the magic…. When the neap tide’s high and the moon’s glow low the old spirits return to tug me there.... I follow the creek uphill to the caves where liquid echoes drip cool, crystal clear collecting in pools so sparking and pure…. With the scoop of a cup I’d drink their health the ritual toast to cast away bad spells.... Now safe and sound, I’d be released to roam to tread with the water in tinkling tap meandering down to the brackish pond.... Creeping and stepping over aerial roots peering eagerly to see its sand bank finding a dam or a river flowing…

Here I watched the mud-skippers hop across As hermit crabs rustled beneath leaves browned I explored rocky shore’s nooks and crannies While unseen birds, high in the canopy Whistled the Bay’s songs in tunes quite eerie…

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"The term was used in Greco-Roman antiquity to designate a variety of brief poems on simple subjects in which the description of natural objects was introduced. The conventions of the pastoral were developed by the Alexandrian school of [|poetry] , particularly by [|Theocritus] , Bion, and Moschus, in the 3rd century bc , and the //Idylls // of <span style="color: #2393bd; font-family: Asap,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Theocritus] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #444444; font-family: Asap,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> are the source of the popular idea of this type of poem." =====

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