1. It’s all about the Love 
Egyptian Poetry
It’s all about the Love 

2. Unit Objectives To understand how the theme of love spans the ages
To appreciate concrete language
To infer the dramatic context
To understand Pastoral Poetry and Escapist Literature
To appreciate Diction, Imagery, and the Lyric Poem
To write Love Poems for Fictional Characters

3. Egyptian Love Poetry Provides:
an archaeology of the emotions
A sense of what was like to be Egyptian—the humor, the vivacity that lay beyond the monuments

4. The New Kingdom
1575 BC to 1087 BC

5. Found Where? Inside Tomb Walls
Written on papyrus (Papyrus is a thick paper-like material produced from the pith of the papyrus plant)
Scribbled on shards of limestone pottery

6. Sentiments of the Poems
Were couched in beautiful similes based on real life in Egypt
Nature-based descriptions that appealed to the senses

7. Pastoral Poetry Egyptian poems belong to the Pastoral genre.
Pastoral Poems celebrate the pleasures of a simple, rural life.
Writers are often sophisticated, educated artists who assume the persona of a simple character.
They try to “escape” the rigors of a complex life

8. Escapist Literature
Allows high civilized writers to experience vicariously what they imagine to be the free life of ordinary folks

9. Imagery
Word or words that appear in a very specific way to one or more of the five senses
Sight, taste, touch, hearing, smell

10. Concrete Language
Appeals to the senses

11. Lyric Poem
A poem that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker
Presents a single experience that does not tell the whole story
Has a melodic quality due to rhythmic patterns
May be rhymed or unrhymed