Excerpt from page 268 of The Aeneid
Wildly, back and forth,
Turnus gallops along the walls-a way in?-no way in.
As a wolf prowling in wait around some crowded sheepfold,
bearing the wind and rain in dead of night, howls
at chinks in the fence, and the lambs keep bleating on,
snug beneath their dams. The wolf rages, desperate,
how can he maul a quarry out of reach? Exhausted,
frenzied with building hunger, starved so long,
his jaws parched for blood.
I really like this part of the book. Sometimes this book can be a little hard to read, but when there's war, it's awesome. The description and everything are just awesome. In the war parts it just sucks me in and I can't stop reading it! This part when I read it just stuck with me. I love all of the metaphors in it, comparing Turnus to a starved wolf, it just works so well. And the description is so intense, I just love it.
Wildly, back and forth,
Turnus gallops along the walls-a way in?-no way in.
As a wolf prowling in wait around some crowded sheepfold,
bearing the wind and rain in dead of night, howls
at chinks in the fence, and the lambs keep bleating on,
snug beneath their dams. The wolf rages, desperate,
how can he maul a quarry out of reach? Exhausted,
frenzied with building hunger, starved so long,
his jaws parched for blood.
I really like this part of the book. Sometimes this book can be a little hard to read, but when there's war, it's awesome. The description and everything are just awesome. In the war parts it just sucks me in and I can't stop reading it! This part when I read it just stuck with me. I love all of the metaphors in it, comparing Turnus to a starved wolf, it just works so well. And the description is so intense, I just love it.
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