Authority
In literature authority means power to influence to change reader's perception to recognize things differently and to create mythical debate around some special events, to embody unforgettable period of time in the heart of history, and to form a future canonical text for many coming generations and cultures. Greeks of the ancient and classical period look upon Homer as their greatest author, as well as his poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. They are epic, oral, poetic traditional poems which developed without the use of writing, the great scholars who developed the Library of Alexandria from the third through the second century B.C. laid the systematic groundwork for the texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey that we use today. “ The …show more content…
Similarly, in the episode of Hector and Andromache, tone changed as the discussion between Hector and Andromache moved to evoke the emotional pitiable character of Andromache and Astyanax to the sense of duty and responsibility that hector holds towards Trojan people. But In the last episode the tone gets more irregular and complex of different feelings, By the entrance of Priam, Achilles who maltreated the Corps of Hector is moved by these memories of home and the feelings that he has for his own father. and agrees to accept Priam’s offer of exchange for Hector's body. The two men, Achilles and Priam, each having his own sorrow, weep together. Then Achilles even supervise the preparations of Hector’s body and also grants the Trojans a 12-day truce to conduct Hector’s funeral rites. On the other hand, Homer used the similes in all the Iliad effectively to describe brutality of war using bulk of natural imagery for example, “by the ships’ sterns both sides met in frantic battle. Just as keen winds sometimes whip up gusts of air, when dirt lies heavy on the road” and in different situation such “ Imbrius collapsed just as an ash tree growing on mountain …show more content…
Michael Longley was inspired by the Iliad in particular with the episode of Achilles and Priam, where he made it less specific than in the Iliad, in order to provide a minimal familiarity with the events of the Trojan War. in the first stanza Longley involves Hector to share 'sadness' with priam, gives the poem a sense of a single community, divided by a conflict in which everyone is a victim. Using the same theme of death, grief and empathy. The sense of a single community is continued in the second stanza as Achilles prepares the body of dead Hector for funeral rites. And in the third stanza, the two men are depicted not just as equals but more even 'as lovers'. In the last two lines of the poem, priam admits for the first time that, Hector was killed deliberately by the hand of Achilles, which he kisses in the second line to show forgiveness. Longley re-ordered the events of the episode, the event of the final couplet – in fact, was the first in the Iliad. The hut of Achilles was replaced by building in
In literature authority means power to influence to change reader's perception to recognize things differently and to create mythical debate around some special events, to embody unforgettable period of time in the heart of history, and to form a future canonical text for many coming generations and cultures. Greeks of the ancient and classical period look upon Homer as their greatest author, as well as his poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. They are epic, oral, poetic traditional poems which developed without the use of writing, the great scholars who developed the Library of Alexandria from the third through the second century B.C. laid the systematic groundwork for the texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey that we use today. “ The …show more content…
Similarly, in the episode of Hector and Andromache, tone changed as the discussion between Hector and Andromache moved to evoke the emotional pitiable character of Andromache and Astyanax to the sense of duty and responsibility that hector holds towards Trojan people. But In the last episode the tone gets more irregular and complex of different feelings, By the entrance of Priam, Achilles who maltreated the Corps of Hector is moved by these memories of home and the feelings that he has for his own father. and agrees to accept Priam’s offer of exchange for Hector's body. The two men, Achilles and Priam, each having his own sorrow, weep together. Then Achilles even supervise the preparations of Hector’s body and also grants the Trojans a 12-day truce to conduct Hector’s funeral rites. On the other hand, Homer used the similes in all the Iliad effectively to describe brutality of war using bulk of natural imagery for example, “by the ships’ sterns both sides met in frantic battle. Just as keen winds sometimes whip up gusts of air, when dirt lies heavy on the road” and in different situation such “ Imbrius collapsed just as an ash tree growing on mountain …show more content…
Michael Longley was inspired by the Iliad in particular with the episode of Achilles and Priam, where he made it less specific than in the Iliad, in order to provide a minimal familiarity with the events of the Trojan War. in the first stanza Longley involves Hector to share 'sadness' with priam, gives the poem a sense of a single community, divided by a conflict in which everyone is a victim. Using the same theme of death, grief and empathy. The sense of a single community is continued in the second stanza as Achilles prepares the body of dead Hector for funeral rites. And in the third stanza, the two men are depicted not just as equals but more even 'as lovers'. In the last two lines of the poem, priam admits for the first time that, Hector was killed deliberately by the hand of Achilles, which he kisses in the second line to show forgiveness. Longley re-ordered the events of the episode, the event of the final couplet – in fact, was the first in the Iliad. The hut of Achilles was replaced by building in