1- John William Waterhouse Ovid’s Narcissus and Echo Link
2- EKPHRASIS Link
3- Here there is some information about the Myth of Echo and Narcissus, by Thomas Bulfinch, a renowned scholar who researched mythology, fables, and folklore.
4- Here there’s information to help you observe and analyze a painting Link
5- A poem by Christina Rossetti, “ECHO,” the sister of the creator of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of visual artists, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Read this poem and observe the many lines appealing to the five senses.
Explore definitions of the following concepts of Figurative Language (tropes) and literary devices, directly compelling you to imagining, visualizing, associating ideas: imagery, metaphor, simile, ekphrasis, allegory, allusion, symbol, archetypes.
Prompt: Write a commentary (your impression, your interpretation) of Waterhouse’ depiction of Echo and Narcissus by explicating and identifying literary tropes as though “reading” this painting as “text.”