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Title: Mythological Poetry : Venus and Adonis, Ovid.
Description: Introduction to Mythological Poetry The Metamorphoses Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare By Dr. N.R. HU University.
Description: Introduction to Mythological Poetry The Metamorphoses Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare By Dr. N.R. HU University.
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Introduction to Poetry
First year – Second Term 2014-2015
Mythological
Ovid/Venus and Adonis
Contents:
1- Definition of Mythology in Poetry
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The biggest source of these kinds of poems is The Metamorphoses, which
is a Latin narrative poem by the Roman poet Ovid, considered to be his
Magnum Opus from the Latin meaning "great work" or a master piece,
refers to the largest, and perhaps the best, greatest, most popular, or most
renowned achievement of an artist
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The Metamorphoses has inspired such authors as Shakespeare's Venus and
Adonis, which expands on the myth in Book X of the Metamorphoses
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Artists such as Titian have
depicted numerous episodes from the poem in masterpieces of sculpture
and painting, as all of these artworks were inspired of The Greek
Mythology
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In form, rhythm, and size, the
Metamorphoses fall squarely in the category of epic
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In
fact, Ovid explicitly pokes fun of the epic genre
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3
Venus and Adonis
Venus and Adonis is a poem by William Shakespeare, written in
1592–1593, with a plot based on passages from Ovid's Metamorphoses
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Shakespeare’s Venus cannot be regarded as the ideal woman
according to the Renaissance canon of beauty
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Instead, he prefers to talk about her in different terms, and she
appears, for instance, as a woman with “soft flesh” and a “smooth
moist hand “
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It is the female
character who persuades Adonis and desperately tries to obtain his
natural response to love, becoming trapped in her own desire
and love sentiments, As she pronounces a curse on love and lovers :
“Sith in his prime death doth my love destroy
They that love best their loves shall not enjoy
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His poem opens with Adonis’ physical description, which is a praise of
his splendid beauty, but the reader of the poem is disturbed by the way,
Adonis is presented
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4
Adonis’ shyness had already been prefigured in Spenser, although it is
Shakespeare who provides him with this unexpected effeminacy
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5
References
1- Bate, Jonathan 1994: Shakespeare and Ovid
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English Poetry
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Lenardon, Classical Mythology
(Oxford University Press US, 1999), p
Title: Mythological Poetry : Venus and Adonis, Ovid.
Description: Introduction to Mythological Poetry The Metamorphoses Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare By Dr. N.R. HU University.
Description: Introduction to Mythological Poetry The Metamorphoses Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare By Dr. N.R. HU University.