Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea

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Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea is a Baroque narrative poem by Luis de Góngora that retells the myth of Polyphemus and Galatea in an ornate, highly metaphorical style characteristic of culteranismo.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Baroque literature work
poem
alternateName Polifemo
linked to: Polyphemus
approximateYearOfComposition 1612
author Luis de Góngora
basedOn Greek mythology
myth of Polyphemus and Galatea
countryOfOrigin Spain
culturalContext Counter-Reformation Spain
firstPublicationCentury 17th century
genre Baroque poetry
hasCharacterType cyclops
sea nymph
shepherd
influencedBy Metamorphoses
languageRegister highly erudite
literaryInfluence Ovid
literaryMovement culteranismo
literaryPeriod Spanish Golden Age
literaryStatus major work of Luis de Góngora
literaryTechnique hyperbaton
metaphor
mythological allusion
periphrasis
mainCharacter Acis
Galatea
Polyphemus
metricalForm octave real
movementCharacteristic representative work of culteranismo
narrativePerspective third-person narrator
numberOfStanzas 63
originalLanguage Spanish
partOf Spanish Baroque poetry canon
linked to: Spanish Baroque
rhymeScheme ABABABCC
setting Sicily
style cultured style
highly metaphorical
ornate
theme beauty and monstrosity
jealousy
pastoral love
unrequited love
violence
titleLanguage Spanish
uses Latinized syntax
verseForm hendecasyllabic verse
workType mythological fable

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Luis de Góngora notableWork Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea
The Loves of the Gods hasPart Polyphemus and Galatea
linked to: Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea
The Loves of the Gods hasPart Polyphemus and Galatea
linked to: Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea
Gongorism relatedWork Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea
Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea basedOn myth of Polyphemus and Galatea
linked to: Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea