Passage Analysis
Betrayal, suspense, passion, and outright bloody murder are such elements in an epic. Homer’s The Odyssey weaves these elements into a wonderful story about Odysseus “ the man of twists and turns” and his harrowing adventures. In Robert Fagles’ translation of The Odyssey each passage of Homer’s is made with a barrage of figurative language and is carefully structured and even can show somewhat of a theme. The passage of The Love of Ares and Aphrodite Crowned with Flowers on lines 320 to 363 gives the reader a glimpse of the life of the gods compared to mortals with an obvious emotion of passion from rage and love boiling from the depth of betrayal and lies.The story is riddled with figurative language such as imagery and epithets, and others. To describe the scene of Ares seducing Aphrodite the words “ chafing with lust” and “ grasped her hand with a warm, seductive urging”(6:327) are used. The words “”so he pressed and her heart raced with joy to sleep with War and off they went to bed and down they lay—” (6:330). Ares knows he wants Aphrodite and Homer made it clear. The trap is also “shown” with the use of imagery, “down around them came those cunning chains of the crafty god of fire, showering d
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Approximate Word count = 910
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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