Aspects of the Baroque (ca. 1580-1680)

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  1. A blending of the picturesque (the wild, the unexpected, the fantastic) with Renaissance formalism.
  2. A stress on movement, energy, and realism
  3. Discord and suspension is set within a heightened, rhetorical emphasis
  4. Its use of asymmetry, rough form, and obscurity could sometimes lead to an emphasis on the grotesque and the contorted
  5. The practice of the metaphysical conceit, a strong, unexpected analogy between two objects intended to enlighten both the reason and the emotions
  6. Tends to focus on the analytical, psychological, and commonplace.
  7. Often absorbed with thoughts of love, death, and religious devotion.

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"All manner of thing shall be well/ When the tongues of flame are in-folded/ Into the crowned knot of fire/ And the fire and the rose are one." -- T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding