Comparing L Allegro And Il Penseroso

The poem Eurydice by Ocean Vuong, is constructed off the famous Greek Mythology legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. The many similes, metaphors and allusions to the story, represent the famous story in a more ambiguous style, that conveys Ocean Vuong’s occurring theme throughout his poem as the many different sides of love, including happiness, sacrifice and hurt. The abundant metaphor and simile represent and emphasize the feelings present throughout the poem, as well the transition from radiant happiness, to emotional hurt. The literary devices and symbolism employed through the poem, underscore the underlying messages in Eurydice.

This myth began when Orpheus rejected the advances of the Ciconian women. He did this because he had rejected the advances of all women because he was still in love with his late wife. He was distraught over the fact that he could not save her from the Underworld and therefore, swore off all women (Metamorphoses 10.82-86). Because of this, the Ciconian women found Orpheus performing one of his songs and decided to get their revenge. They first began killing the animals that had been enthralled by Orpheus’ song and then turned on Orpheus. They murdered him viciously and savagely, using stones and the earth to kill him (Metamorphoses 11.20-44). Orpheus then descended into the Underworld to join his late wife. Orpheus was mourned by a lot of beings, including the god Bacchus. He was angry that the Ciconian women had murdered Orpheus and transformed them into trees

If you met a man named Orpheus who had a girlfriend, would you assume her name was Eurydice? Many people would, because the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is from “many, many thousand years ago” and is still passed on today, verbally and through works of literature. In his 1959 film Black Orpheus, Marcel Camus interprets this well-known myth, making changes to the story to make it more dramatic and interesting. Black Orpheus is substantially different from the original myth because Orpheus has a girlfriend before meeting Eurydice, Hermes plays a different role, Orpheus kills Eurydice, Orpheus cannot bring Eurydice back from the underworld, and Orpheus’ death

Before one can dive into analyzing the myth, let’s go over what the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice actually is. According to the textbook “A Journey through Greek Mythology” by Monica Cyrino: Orpheus is the son of Calliope and the god Apollo. Orpheus happened

The skeleton character in the film Black Orpheus is Death, who personifies the immortal concept of death which eventually claims Eurydice before her time and kills her. This character is very important to this movie, which offered a modern day update of the myth (a legend or story used to explain things such as nature or aspects of gods) of Orpheus when this film was initially created in 1959 (No author, 1958), because he serves as the antagonist. An antagonist is an adversary. It is due to the pursuit and the machinations of the skeleton character that Eurydice even travels to Brazil. And, it is due to the skeleton character's relentless pursuit that Eurydice is eventually destroyed by Orpheus, although she compromises her safety by hanging from a power line in order to escape from Death.

Orpheus was an extremely talented musician who used his gifted talent of playing the lyre to sooth and empower everyone that heard. But after all of this time making others happy he was missing something in his life, in which he found out what that was when he met the wood nymph Eurydice. Hymen the god of marriage came to bless the wedding, but even he and the omens opposed the marriage. These signs came out true as Eurydice was stuck in the leg by a viper and banished the underworld. Orpheus couldn’t stand not having her and set out on a quest to go to the underworld and try to bring her back. He played his lyre soothing all of the horrible acts and beasts in his way. He sung with all his heart and got hades to allow him another chance to

How far would you go for love? Would you travel through treacherous grounds just to find the one whom you love? And when you do, is it all worth it in the end? That’s what Orpheus did to find the one he truly and deeply loved, Eurydice.

While Orpheus find his wife that he really loves he falls deeply in love. Then his wife Eurydice starts to run from a shepherd who wants to marry her, she steps on a poisonous snake and dies from its poisonous bite. This makes Orpheus mad and he runs over the land singing songs and making music that is sad for his lost wife.

Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice (2003) and ancient Greek myth of Eurydice share the same themes and more or less same structure. In the play like the myth, Eurydice and Orpheus are madly in love, but when Eurydice dies, she is sent to the underworld where Orpheus tries to save her and bring her into the world of the living but in the end is unsuccessful. When looking at the contrasting elements between the myth and Ruhl’s production we see the play modernized its characters, scene, and setting. While there may be differences in the story and morals they still keep true to the original Greek myth. However Ruhul production does more to increase the interest of the viewer by adding characters as well as having a more complex plot compared to the myth—this

Orpheus was given a lyre made out of a tortoise shell by his father Apollo. Orpheus' music was so beautiful, it could charm inanimate objects, and it even protected sailors from the enchanting song of mermaids. Orpheus met and fell in love with a nymph named Eurydice. One day, fleeing from Aristaeus, she stepped on a snake and died from its poison. Devastated by her loss, Orpheus sought and was granted an audience with the rulers of the underworld. He played for them, and, charmed by his music, they allowed Eurydice to return with him, provided that neither of them look back as they left. When Orpheus reached Earth, he turned back to help his wife, forgetting that they both needed to have returned before either of them could look back, and

(349-350) Not only did she leave her husband and wedding, she follows a strange man claiming to have a letter from her father. Instead of celebrating one of the happiest day of her adulthood, she clings to the love she has for her father and the opportunity to rekindle past memories with her dead father. Eurydice’s absurd choices and morals made it impossible for her to move on and progress as an adult. The result of this, is her unfortunate death and trip to the underworld.

In this one act play Eurydice written by Sarah Ruhl and cut by Rachael Koske, A young man named, Orpheus, and a young woman named, Eurydice, were by the ocean talking. Eurydice told Orpheus that she read a book that day after he said that he could hear the music. She explains the book to Orpheus, then he asked if she loved books and she said she did and thought they were interesting. Orpheus tell Eurydice that he wrote a song for her but cannot sing it because there are too many parts for him to do. Eurydice wants to go into the water but Orpheus wants her to remember a melody for him but she is bad at remembering melodies and ask him why he cannot remember it himself. Orpheus said he already had eleven melodies in his head. She sings it back

Orpheus is madly in love with his wife Eurydice; they were inseparable. “And yet they see nothing in the universe except each other. And the sinuous lines of their bodies, their clothes, even of the cavern mouth itself-wordlessly sing of a oneness of life and death beneath their present helplessness. That power, of course, is love, greater even than the astonishing power of music that gave Orpheus entry into Death’s Kingdom to begin with” (Myer web). When Eurydice dies and is sent to the underworld, Orpheus could not handle her disappearance so he did the courageous decision of going on an adventure to the underworld, and asking for her back. “He dared more than any other man dared for his love. He took the fearsome journey to the underworld” (Hamilton,107). Orpheus is known for having a miraculous voice which he uses to convince Hades (God of the underworld) into giving Eurydice back in Orpheus’ arms again. Hades agrees to Orpheus’ request under one condition, he can not look back until both reach the light of the real world and have completely stepped out of the underworld. Orpheus did not let temptation get to his mind while they traveled back to the real world. Once he finally stepped out and reached the light, he turns back too soon to realize Eurydice was still in the darkness of the underworld. Orpheus got one glance until she disappeared into the darkness once again. His last chance of getting her back was lost which led him to fall into depression. The expectations of a male mainly consist of

Carol Ann Duffy’s “Eurydice” is a rewrite of Ovid’s “Orpheus and Eurydice” in which the focus shifts over to Eurydice, where readers get a different perspective of the much older story, with Eurydice having more of a say and achieving her goals. Ovid’s poem shows Eurydice as a damsel in distress who needs to be saved. Duffy’s rewrite shows Eurydice being an independent woman who does not want to be a muse. After being silent for so long, Eurydice finally has a voice to give her thoughts on Orpheus. Duffy’s rewrite gives insight to what Eurydice thinks of Orpheus’s attempts to get her back; the rewrite also explores the role of men and women in society.

In this interpretation of the story, so much time has passed between her death and the time that Orpheus came to “save” her Euridice can “almost remember” her husband, but not quite. Death has become her no normal and all that came before it is nothing but a faint memory. At this point she would rather “go on feeling nothing,/ Emptiness and silence; this stagnant peace” than go back to feeling all the pain that the world inflicts on the living. Eurydice mentions that Orpheus “loves [her],/ Not as [she] is now,/ So chilled and minimal,” leaving the reader to question if Orpheus could love the person she has become, or only the person he once knew her to be. Perhaps Eurydice convinced him to look back at her on purpose, so she would not have to suffer the pain of finding out the true