I chose to write my document about Metamorphoses. It is argued that the genre is hard to decide. I do agree, but it fits well in the genre of epic. I also found other genres that will suit it, Wisdom Poetry and Speculative Poetry. Wisdom Poetry involves any piece written or researched by a scholar. Nikolaas Heinsius the Elder was a Dutch scholar who did research on Metamorphoses. Speculative Poetry is a piece written completely on speculation. I'm not saying that Metamorphoses is a complete lie, but since we have no physical proof, especially video, showing that all the events that happened in the tale, I am a little skeptical of it all. However, I do believe in God. The line, "some" god is used in the beginning. If this really was factual, wouldn't Ovid have gotten the god's name or maybe a friend informed Ovid? Many questions.
I believe that Metamorphoses will be an interesting topic to write about. The fact that its a creation story brings up several interesting topics to include. I am going to reread it because there are still some areas I am not completely understanding. Due to its different writing style, some elements are hard to understand. Hopefully my paper will be successful.
I pretty excited to see what you found about Metamorphoses in class dude. I have many questions myself by reading this article about going into more detail about the genres.
ReplyDeleteI hope your paper goes well. You've got a lot to work with, so I think you can do it.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate you mentioning that you have to reread some works. I have to reread all of them. it takes me a little bit of time to really understand most of the literature that we are covering in this class.
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to reading your paper.