| 单词 | parable-poem |
| 释义 | > as lemmasparable-poem C1. General attributive and objective with reference to works of art, etc., which are parables or are intended to convey a moral lesson, or to the authors of such works, as parable-opera, parable-play, parable-poem, parable-poet, parable-writer, etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > narrative poem > [noun] > other types of narrative poem comedya1413 tragica1679 lai1774 fabliau1804 dream poem1850 parable-poem1884 dream vision1906 corrido1911 toast1962 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > parable, allegory, or apologue > [noun] > writer or teller of fabler1382 fabulist1593 apologer1624 parabolist1651 allegorizer1677 parabolizer1691 allegorist1754 allegorister1841 parable-writer1884 1884 Athenæum 6 Dec. 725/1 [They] can only be described as parable-poems. 1884 Athenæum 6 Dec. 727/3 The current of the story with the Western parable-writer moves too rapidly. 1902 J. B. Bilderbeck Chaucer's Legend Good Women 86 Parable-reading, though full of attractions, has its limitations and dangers. 1904 N.E.D. at Parable Parable-poet. 1935 W. H. Auden in G. Grigson Arts To-Day 20 There must always be two kinds of art, escape-art..and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love. 1941 L. MacNeice Poetry of Yeats 187 Thirdly, there are those plays which are near to fable or which might be called parable-plays—The King's Threshold (1904). 1957 Stud. in Renaissance 4 45 In the parable plays it assumed large proportions. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 18 Dec. 18/1 Britten composed in almost all the musical forms available to him—and even invented one, the parable opera, such as Curlew River and The Prodigal Son, in which a moral lesson was set forth in direct and easily assimilable musical terms. < as lemmas |
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