Look up: pastoral

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   Pastoral
   a literary genre. Originally a poem dealing with shepherds, a pastoral is usually written by an urban poet who idealizes the shepherds' lives. The term has now been extended to include any literary work which views and idealizes the simple life from the perspective of a more complex life. [Contributor: Dr. Ismail S. Talib, National University of Singapore.]
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   Pastoral
   A poem about idyllic rural life - often featuring the life of shepherds. Early examples of the form include the idylls of Theocritus and the eclogues of Virgil. Milton's poem Lycidas is also an example of a pastoral poem. Pastorals tended to die out with the rise of romanticism.
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   pastoral
   [adj] - of or relating to a pastor 2. [n] - a letter from a pastor to the congregation 3. [n] - a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
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   Pastoral
   A highly conventional mode of writing which celebrates the innocent life of shepherds and shepherdesses in poetry, plays and prose romances. Pastoral literature describes the loves and sorrows of musical shepherds
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   Pastoral
   Pas'tor·al adjective [ Latin pastoralis : confer French pastoral . See Pastor .] 1. Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life. 2. Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter. Pastoral staff (Eccl.) , a staff, usu ...
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   Pastoral
   Pas'tor·al noun 1. A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic. « A pastoral is a poem in which any action or passion is represented by its effects on a country life.» Rambler. 2. (Mus.) A cantata relating to rural life; a composition for instruments characte ...
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   pastoral
   1. Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life. ... 2. Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter. Pastoral staff, a staff, usually of the form of a shepherd's crook, borne as an official emblem by a bishop, abbot, abbess, or other prelate privi ...
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   pastoral
   adjective of or relating to a pastor; `pastoral work`; `a pastoral letter`
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   Pastoral
   `Pastoral`, as an adjective, refers to the lifestyle of shepherds and pastoralists, moving livestock around larger areas of land according to seasons and availability of water and feed. `Pastoral` also describes literature, art and music which depicts the life of shepherds, often in a highly idealised manner. It may also be used as a noun (a `pastoral`) to describe a single work of pastoral poetry, music or drama. An alternative name for the lite...
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    Pastoral
    • (a.) Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life. • (n.) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese; also (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish. • (a.) Relating to the care of souls, or to t...
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    pastoral
    (from the article `Monteverdi, Claudio`) ...short, static musical treatment, often allegorical and with scenery, of a subject from the play with which it was given, emphasizing the wishes of ...
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    Pastoral
    (from the article `Bassano, Jacopo`) Landscape and genre subjects became particularly important about 1565–70, when his first paintings of rural life were produced. One of the finest is ...
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    pastoral
    following Theocritus (3rd cent. B.C.), verse about those shepherds and their beloveds who lived the simple vice-free life in Arcadia, a mountainous region in the Peloponnese of Greece. Also termed bucolic, eclogues, and idylls.
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    pastoral
    
    1. a musical composition that evokes rural life
    2. a letter from a pastor to the congregation
    3. a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
    
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    pastoral
    pastoral, literary work in which the shepherd's life is presented in a conventionalized manner. In this convention the purity and simplicity of shepherd life is contrasted with the corruption and artificiality of the court or the city. The pastoral is found in poetry, drama, and fiction, and many su...
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