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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... story becomes increasingly dark and tense as it heightens for the outbreak of war . Yet to appreciate fully this gradual intensification of plot , it is necessary to re- turn to the book's beginning , for the story grows from the ...
... story becomes increasingly dark and tense as it heightens for the outbreak of war . Yet to appreciate fully this gradual intensification of plot , it is necessary to re- turn to the book's beginning , for the story grows from the ...
Page 65
... 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 transparent signs for inner events . Although it constitutes only a special ...
... 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 transparent signs for inner events . Although it constitutes only a special ...
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... story in the style of Demo- dokos ( Ody . 8.266 ) would have been out of place — but why not another one , perhaps from the Phoenician past ? Why should Vergil , perhaps inspired by the song of Orpheus in Apollonius ( 1.496 ) , prefer ...
... story in the style of Demo- dokos ( Ody . 8.266 ) would have been out of place — but why not another one , perhaps from the Phoenician past ? Why should Vergil , perhaps inspired by the song of Orpheus in Apollonius ( 1.496 ) , prefer ...
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