The Art of Vergil: Image and Symbol in the AeneidIn a discussion in which a comparison of Vergil and Homer becomes the pivot of criticism, the author analyzes basic themes, outlines the Vergilian structure, and indicates the way in which the characters and the events concerning them are related to the whole poem. The author shows how Vergil enlarged upon Homeric similes until they became transparent signs for inner events. He also examines the architecturally structured sequence of mood and argues that, since Vergil, mood has become to poetry what light is to painting. |
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... action is embedded in divine action , not only as an artistic means but also as a statement of fact . To understand this is to hold one of the keys to the secret of classical composition . Besides being subject to the autonomous law of ...
... action is embedded in divine action , not only as an artistic means but also as a statement of fact . To understand this is to hold one of the keys to the secret of classical composition . Besides being subject to the autonomous law of ...
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... action is suspended while the poet pauses to elaborate a point of the story . In Vergil's similes the inner action continues in the emotions of the persons involved . To a much greater degree than Homer's , Vergil's similes are ...
... action is suspended while the poet pauses to elaborate a point of the story . In Vergil's similes the inner action continues in the emotions of the persons involved . To a much greater degree than Homer's , Vergil's similes are ...
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... action - the thunderstorm accompany- ing the love union of the protagonists . Nature had already appeared as the sounding board of action in Homer as a re- flection of the original Greek concept of the unity of man and physis , that is ...
... action - the thunderstorm accompany- ing the love union of the protagonists . Nature had already appeared as the sounding board of action in Homer as a re- flection of the original Greek concept of the unity of man and physis , that is ...
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