georgic
- adjective
- /ˈdʒɪərdʒɪk/
- Literature
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georgico
- The poet's latest collection includes several georgic verses that celebrate the beauty of rural life and farming.
- georgic mode
Examples
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During the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, landscape gardening—a subject for topographical verse—and other georgic poetry will focus on agricultural arts.
Academic text (1997) -
These images tended to downplay or elide the labor involved in agricultural work, emphasizing instead the bounty of nature as part of a georgic, pastoral, or picturesque vision.
Academic text (1995) -
In Clare's transformation of a georgic mode
Academic text (2017) -
Modern georgic weather thus offered a physics of global communication (134).
Academic text (2016) -
The georgic mode, Kurt Heinzelman argues, "defines writing itself as a cultural
Academic text (2017) -
The opening lines contain much of the same prosodic complexity as "in neglect," here belied by the poem's georgic overtones.
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As I have stated previously, Clare is self-consciously rewriting the georgic mode by valorizing animal labor in order to undermine private property.
Academic text (2017) -
Yet Clare decenters the georgic emphasis on human work in order to tackle the problem of how we might see or discern the way agricultural work is always dependent upon the silent work being done by natural processes.
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In Clare's transformation of the georgic mode, the poppies and carlock are the heroic workers transforming the countryside through asserting a form of life analogous to the limited freedom secured by the poor when exercising their common rights.
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Her novel features a georgic theme, exploring the challenges and rewards of agricultural practices.
Synonyms
How Rural
Surface Forms
Morphology
georgic = georg + ic
Formed from the combining form 'georg-' plus the adjectival suffix '-ic'; the root is not a standalone English word, so learners cannot reliably derive the meaning from the parts.
Etymology
The word georgic comes from the Greek parts ge- ('earth') and ergon ('work'), so it means 'working the land' and is used to describe farming or country life.