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Even though pastoral poetry has come to mean any poetry that deals with the simplicity of life past life in contrast to the terrible present. Also known as "the idyll," "the eclogue," and "bucolic poetry," the pastoral is a poem which idealises the peaceful and s ....

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.... pages of a pastoral poem. The serenity and quiet experienced by the shepherds in the hills of Arcadia, was put into words. The present state of humanity was seen as an Iron Age in which humans have become degenerate. There are three main kinds of pastoral that can be identified in different works. The classical pastoral begins with a conception on man and on human nature and locates it in a specific type, the shepherd, the simplicity of whose life is the goal toward which all existence strives. The shepherds remain first and foremost emblem of humanity, a general rather than a specific type and his afflictions and joys are universal. is an example ....