HUM 2- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 54 pages long!)
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Virgil"s poem is one that situates itself in the past but has powerful resonance to the presence. Switching to the context when virgil wrote the epic, augustus (a roman man) defeats african queen. Even though it"s an epic poem, very little seems to happen except talk. How the narrator of the poem emerges by making similes, by stating causes and purposes. How are characters developed through speech? (juno, aeolus, venus) The central technique of book i as keyed to the simile; simile are the engine that drives the narration of the epic. Simile make possible the comparison of something. Physical to something conceptual, real to something imaginary. Simile say as much about the making the similes as they say about the things within the similes. How you make a smile is a mark of your imagination. Tells us much about the writer and the world. Aeneid talks about his past and own duty in the present.
