Imbongi

## Umlando
E- Ancient Rome, izimbongi eziqeqeshiwe zazivame ukuxhaswa ngabathengi, abacebile abacebile kubandakanya izikhulu nezikhulu zamasosha.Isibonelo, uGaius Cilnius Maecenas, umngani kaKesari Augustus, wayengumphathi obalulekile wezimbongi zika-Augustan, kufaka phakathi bobabili uHorace noVirgil.Ngenkathi u- Ovid, imbongi esungulwe kahle, waxoshwa eRoma ngu- Awugustu wokuqala.

NgeNkathi Ephakathi Ephakathi, abahlukumezi babeyisigaba esibalulekile sezimbongi futhi bevela ezizindeni ezahlukahlukene.Babehlala futhi behamba ezindaweni eziningi ezahlukahlukene futhi babebhekwa njengabalingisi noma abaculi njengezimbongi.Babevame ukuphathwa, kepha abaningi babehamba kakhulu.

Isikhathi se- Renaissance saqhubeka nokuxhaswa kwezimbongi ngabasebukhosini.Izimbongi eziningi, kodwa, bezineminye imithombo engenayo, okubandakanya amaNtaliyane anjengoDante Aligheri, uGiovanni Boccaccio noPetrarch 's works in a pharmist's guild and William 's Shakespeare's theatre.

Esikhathini se-Romantic kuya phambili, izimbongi eziningi zazingababhali abazimele ababeziphilisa ngomsebenzi wabo, imvamisa belekelelwa yimali evela kweminye imisebenzi noma emndenini.  Lokhu bekubandakanya izimbongi ezinjengoWilliam Wordsworth noRobert Burns.

Izimbongi ezifana noVirgil ku- Aeneid noJohn Milton kwi- Paradise Lost bacele usizo lwe- Muse.

## Ezemfundo
Izimbongi zezikhathi zangaphambili zazivame ukufundwa kahle nabantu abafunde kakhulu kanti ezinye zazizifundise ngezinga elikhulu.Izimbongi ezimbalwa ezifana noJohn Gower noJohn Milton bakwazile ukubhala izinkondlo ngezilimi ezingaphezu kweyodwa.Ezinye izimbongi zasePortugal, njengoFrancisco de Sá de Miranda, azibhalanga ngesiPutukezi kuphela kodwa nangeSpanishi.UJan Kochanowski ubhale ngesiPolish nangesiLatin,  uFrance Prešeren noKarel Hynek Mácha  babhala izinkondlo ezithile ngesiJalimane, yize babeyizimbongi zaseSlovenia naseCzech ngokulandelana. U-Adam Mickiewicz, imbongi enkulu kunazo zonke zolimi lwasePoland, wabhala i-ode yesiLatini yombusi uNapoleon III.Esinye isibonelo uJerzy Pietrkiewicz, imbongi yasePoland. Lapho ethuthela eGreat Britain, wayeka ukubhala izinkondlo ngesiPolish, kodwa waqala ukubhala inoveli ngesiNgisi.Wabuye wahumusha izinkondlo zisuselwa esiNgisini ziye esiNgisini.

Amanyuvesi amaningi ahlinzeka ngama-degree ekubhaleni okudala yize lokhu kuvele kuphela ngekhulu lama-20.Yize lezi zifundo zingadingeki emsebenzini wokuba yimbongi, zingaba wusizo njengokuqeqesha, nokunikeza umfundi iminyaka eminingi yesikhathi egxile ekubhaleni kwabo. 

## Izimbongi zevesi elingcwele
Izimbongi ezi-Lyrical ezibhala izinkondlo ezingcwele ("ama- hymnographer ") ziyehluka emfanekisweni ojwayelekile wezimbongi ngezindlela eziningi.Umbhali wezingoma ezifana no- Isaac Watts owabhala izinkondlo ezingama-700 ngesikhathi sakhe sokuphila, kungenzeka ukuthi izingoma zakhe ziculwa yizigidi zabantu njalo ngeSonto ekuseni, kodwa azifakwanga njalo kwizingoma zezinkondlo.Ngoba amaculo abhekwa njengokuthi " ukukhonza " kunokuthi "izinkondlo," igama elithi "ubuciko kenosis" kwesinye isikhathi lisetshenziselwa ukuchaza impumelelo yomculi wehuna "ekuchitheni" umuzwa wokuphumelela njengombongi.Umculi osesihlalweni angahle abambe ngekhanda izitanza ezimbalwa zikaWatts, ngaphandle kokwazi igama lakhe noma ukumcabanga njengembongi.