How Does Virgil Use Allusions In Aenied

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In Virgil's story, “Aenied” lines 1-11, he uses a rising meter and allusions to create a theme of certainty in fate, a theme of trusting the dangerous voyage, and that gods can be cruel. Virgil’s rising meter can be seen in lines one and two, also in ten and eleven. By using unstressed syllables followed by stressed ones, this lets Virgil slow down the tempo of his poem. This heightens a feeling of grandeur as he parades himself through the poem. These unstressed and stressed syllables create a sense of urgency at the end of the lines. This is stressing on remembering. You are forced to remember everything, part of it stressed and part of it unstressed. It gives your brain attention to the whole story, all the way to the end. You are forced …show more content…

This makes you think of the opening and end equally. While he questions everything, he is pointing towards the nature of faith which is mentioned throughout the whole poem. His fate is sealed and the questions he is asking and the reasoning to the gods is to the absolute nature of their guidance. Next, vergil uses allusions in order to create that tone of grandeur and display that theme of fate. Through the epic we see references to Homer’s epics that address the muses in the opening. The opening is in media res and the cruelty of the gods in the first few lines. Cruel Gods is a common theme in this epic. They throw the hero around on the earth and in the sea. These are all characteristics of this epic. The odyssey is referenced through those characteristics which opens to Odysseus pleading for his fate to the gods because of the fault of the gods by his muses. In connection with this respected work, Virgil is saying his epic is the same as a Roman equivalent. He is also forcing the readers to think of these other ancient epics also characterized by the grand tone and story which will make the audience feel that tone of

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