Virgil’s Aeneid provides intense passages that, when broken down, help explore the story in a new way. D. E. Eichholz addresses numerous people who interpret the Aeneid in different ways’ all of whom see the epic as a collection of symbols. Virgil’s language can help discover simpler explanations for bigger meanings. Michael C.J. Putnam along with Robert A. Brooks, provide warnings about clarifying the poet’s symbolism. The shield, made by Vulcan, provides an impressive example of a symbol. Secondly, the author writes, “The storm that begins the action of the poem seems to symbolize the irrational, disorderly elements in the cosmos that obstruct the fulfillment of destiny, in this case the arrival of Aeneas and the Trojan fugitives in Italy”(Eichholz,
