Write 2 pages with APA style on Choose several epic similes concerning Aeneas in the first four books and comment on what portrait of Aeneas emerges from these comparisons.

Write 2 pages with APA style on Choose several epic similes concerning Aeneas in the first four books and comment on what portrait of Aeneas emerges from these comparisons. Analysis of the Epic Similes used in the Aeneid Simile is one of the most important stylistic devices used in epic poetry. They are applied in several genres of both prose and poetry, but in early literatures, the features are particularly stronger with the heroic. Epic simile is extended in its form and tends to consist of a number of points and details of comparison.

In Book I, Neptune is described according to the way he calms the raging (rough) sea and ordering the winds to fall back to their caves. This process destructs Juno’s desire and attempts to obliterate Aeneas in addition to his fleet. The rough description of this section is as follows:

“Often times when the civilians are provoked to revolts and commotion arms them with the simpler arms such as stones, in addition to seeing a man deserving compensation for his service and pietas to the nation. they remain silent and provide him with the available attention and respect, and he is capable of bringing order to the crowd and lessening their anger. thus the sea drew back as Father Neptune was riding by (Book I, 148-156)”.

This epic simile entirely illustrates the Roman image. It also entails the vision of Romans that the leader with the right kind of power is capable of mastering furor.

In Book IV, epic simile is expressed when Aeneas decides to go hunting with his lover, Dido. This is expressed below:

Just as Apollo,

when in the winter he abandons Lycia

and Xanthus’ streams to visit his maternal

Delos, where he renews the dances—Cretans,

Dryopians, and painted Agathyrsi,

mingling around the altars, shout—advances

upon the mountain ridges of high Cynthus

and binds his flowing hair with gentle leaves

and braids its strands with intertwining gold.

his arrows clatter on his shoulder: no

less graceful is Aeneas as he goes.

an equal beauty fills his splendid face (Vergils Aeneid 4. 143-150).

In the mind of Dido, this epic simile shows Aeneas’ godlike character.

Works Cited

Virgil, , Barbara W. Boyd, and Virgil. Vergils Aeneid: Selections from Books 1, 2, 4, 6, 10 & 12 : Teachers Guide. Wauconda, Ill: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2002. Print.