In this way, the social arenas of sport and war act as paradigmatic signifiers for masculine behaviour characterised by optimal, age-appropriate performance-based heroics.
The type of poetry commonly known as heroic is one which makes its appearance in various nations and in various periods of history.
Most importantly, he is the antithesis of the heroic.
He is best described as a character tenor, but he was popular as a teacher of heroic tenors in the 1920s and 1930s.
Is the search for panacea an identification with a heroic struggle?
Part of the explanation is, of course, the sheer weight of poetic simplexes appearing in this poem, which are due to the poem's heroic content.
There is a whole number of themes on the grand scale, heroic and epic, which music can provide.
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprize is gone!
