It was also not uncommon for historical references to appear in literary works during the seventeenth century. Wespazjan Kochowski, the poet responsible for the Polish Baroque-style poem, A Curse on the Sons, of the Crown: Who Disrupt the Diets, expresses the negativity of Sarmatism with the literary devices of symbolism, metaphor, metonymy, imagery, personification, allusion, and simile. ... Kochowski's poem represents Sarmatism. ... Kochowski's poem is made up of six stanzas, with eight lines in each stanza. ... These literary devices have artistically expressed Kochowski's...

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