Idyll

The term idyll (also: Idyll ) denotes harmonious glorified rural life today. It usually means by that a picture or a state act quiet and peaceful on the viewer. The word comes from the Greek Eidyllion and originally means " small, self- poem", or " pictures". Asked scenic landscape shots that often represent castles, palaces and memorable natural objects or landscapes both visually and graphically, with distracting objects are retouched are referred to as postcard idyll.

In addition, the epic idyll means a literary genre that idylls go back to the works of the ancient Greek poet Theocritus, make in pastoral poems ( bucolic, pastoral ) rural life as their main subject.

On the history of the genus " idyll "

Roman poets like Virgil and Catullus or the English poet Tennyson have imitated this seal. In German literature, the idyll had its heyday in the 18th century. Particularly influential was about Salomon Gessner. Late 18th and early 19th century began with the reinterpretation of the idyll, part social criticism, as with Johann Heinrich Voss, partly opening into a bourgeois idyll as Johann Wolfgang Goethe in Hermann and Dorothea. On the literary idyll is one of the topos of the locus amoenus, the lovely resort, often located at a remote source or in a quiet grove. Closely related is the idyll with the idea of Arcadia, a place beyond all social constraints.

Within the American literature, the idyll with the Amish Romance Novel has since the 2000s been a certain revival.

Johann Heinrich Voss sparked the idea of ​​the attachment to the land of life and especially the emotional content of " Heal the World" and harmonious coexistence. His idylls provide basic human attitudes such as love, satisfaction, but also superstition or the fight for freedom in easily manageable scenes dar. With the " Luise. A rural poem in three idylls " he paved the way for small - epic that with Goethe's " Hermann and Dorothea " began immediately and reached the summit. In contrast to the static idyll the small epic describes an event in which an unexpected event leads to new developments.