Shot Through The Heart Passage - 1285 Words

Shot through the Heart Passage: â€Å"My father,Anchises,whenever the darkness shrouds the earth in its dank shadows,whenever the stars go flaming up in the sky,my father’s anxious ghost warns me in dreams and fills my heart with fear. My son Ascanius...i feel the wrong I do to one so dear,robbing him of his kingdom, lands in the West, his fields decreed by Fate. And now the messenger of the gods-I swear it, by your life and mine-dispatched by Jove himself has brought me firm commands through the racing winds. With my own eyes I saw him,clear, in broad daylight, moving through your gates.With my own eyes I drank his message in.Come,stop inflaming us both with your appeals.I set sail for Italy- all against my will.† Even from the start of his declaration,she has glared at him askance, her eyes roving over him ,head to foot, with a look of stony silence...till abruptly she cries out in a blaze of fury: â€Å"No goddess was your mother! No Dardanus sired your line,you traitor,liar,no, Mount Caucasus fathered you on its flinty,rugged flanks and the tigers of Hyrcania gave you their dugs to suck! Why hide it? Why hold back?To suffer greater blows? Did he groan when I wept?Even look at me? Never! Surrender a tear? Pity the one who loves him? What can I say first? So much to say. Now- neither mighty Juno nor Saturn’s son,the Father, gazes down on this with just,impartial eyes. There’s no faith left on earth! He was washed up on my shores,helpless,and I,Show MoreRelatedEssay on Compare and Contrast Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now1353 Words   |  6 Pageswhen I learned that it was sort of based on Joseph Conrads famous novella, Heart of Darkness. Conrads book, the tale of the sailor Marlowes African adventure, is a study on the evils of colonialism. The two stories at first glance do not seem very similar, but after examining both, it is quite shocking the degree of similarity between the two. 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