Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 16 AIL 1507 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Achilles' Wrath"
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The idea
Pope's Homer opens that Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring of woes unnumbered, is what the heavenly goddess should sing. The subject is named first, the goddess is asked second, and the poem's whole action is compressed into one noun.
In practice
Wrath named before the goddess.
Where people slip
One noun holds the whole action.
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