Antithetics
The term antithesis refers to the frequent use of content contrasts in the poetry of the Baroque .
The goal was to examine the dichotomy of man with nature , God or the world show. Some contrasts in the works of that time were:
- On the other side and beyond
- Game and seriousness
- appearance and reality
- Lust and virtue
- Eroticism and asceticism
- earthly and heavenly life
- " Carpe diem " (Latin for "use the day") and " Memento mori " (Latin for "Remember that you will die")
Many of these contradictions are related to the life motto of Vanitas (Latin for "transience"), which had a great influence on the works of the Baroque.
Writers who took up antithetics in their works were e.g. B. Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau , Paul Fleming and Andreas Gryphius .
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