Describe in brief the chief qualities of Bacon’s prose style.
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The obvious feature of Bacon’s prose style is that it is very plain. His abrupt and impersonal discourses are dry and concise. His clipped, irregular prose style was known as ‘ the Senecan amble ‘. Bacon is greatly indebted to the Roman dramatist, moralist, and philosophic letter writer Seneca the younger. His essays are so pithy and impersonal that many of the sayings in them have become proverbial. They cut into the heart of the thought and were brilliantly epigrammatic instead of tiresomely given to the circumlocutions of the prose of that time.
He begins with a simple statement and then proceeds to follow out the idea, giving illustrations from his own experience, or from his wide reading in history, biography, or philosophy, and ends as quietly as he has begun. But the obvious quality of brevity and terseness in Bacon’s style has prevented enough attention being given to the brilliance of the images which he employs. Many of them are genuinely poetic, and contributing greatly to his effectiveness. His images are not extraneous, or merely ornamental. Each emphasizes and illuminates the idea. His essays reflect shrewd, sharp-eyed, and realistic is the example of brilliant wit. observation of the world around him. His concise and lively prose is an example of brilliant wit.
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