Lyre

Ode to the West Wind The poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley refers to the wind 4 times in the first section of the poem, although we do not know until the very end of the first section why and what he wants from the wind. In order to gain the Winds trust and confidence, the speaker comes up with a couple examples of what the wind did in the past and is capable of. Like driving away the autumn leaves, placing seeds in the earth, bringing thunderstorms and the "death" of the natural world, and stirring up

The fear of death is meaningless in this concept. But what are we fearing in death? Is it the unimaginable or our life afterwards? Socrates does not seem to explain this; he simply summarizes that if you lead a life, such as seeking true wisdom, the idea of fear does not exist. What completely is death? He explains it as the separation of the soul and body, but is there actually more to that? For instance, what occurs to your body once you are liberated? How can the soul be called pure if it tainted

losing what he values most. To illustrate this, Homer offers the following simile: “[…] as when a man, who well understands the lyre and singing, easily, holding it on either side, pulls the strongly twisted cord of sheep’s gut, so as to slip it over a new peg, so without any strain, Odysseus strung the great bow,” (21.406-9). Homer contradicts the graceful precision of the lyre with the barbaric twisting of the cord of a sheep’s gut in order to allude to Odysseus’s triumph over the

In The Iliad, the Olympian Gods were depicted as a group of individuals who were still completely vulnerable to mistake and harm despite their great power. Zeus was one, if not the biggest and most powerful God among all other Gods. Known as the King of the Gods, Zeus was a mighty, dominant, and seemingly supreme God, despite his tendency to show surprising silliness and sometimes, the lack of wisdom through his choices, especially when it came to love affairs, which eventually led to many problems

familiar myth speaks of Apollo and a satyr named Marsyas, who challenged Apollo to a contest of musical prowess. Marsyas discovered a flute-like instrument [;,crafted by Athena and, after mastering it, challenged Apollo to outmatch him. Apollo, with his lyre, was

London, and the Gorgons. The Sirens were sea nymphs, part woman, and part bird. The names of these creatures were Peisinoe meaning ‘ Persuasive Mind’, Thelxiepeia meaning ‘ Soothing Words', and Aglaope meaning ‘Beautiful Face'. One Siren played the lyre, one played the flute and the other third Siren sang.

girls are often working for money for their families. An example of what a girl would be doing is making dinner and collecting lumber for the fire. Lyre does not do this due to no responsibility in the huge home they live in. It is unusual that she is also associating herself with a peasant boy. He works in the kitchen but is often persuaded to play with Lyre. And many others can not say anything about her attitude and her way of living due to her uncle's status. If she did not have her uncle's statues

beauty created can be forgotten as well. These lines present another metaphor that furthers the concept of human mortality. Shelley compares humans to "forgotten lyres" in that our ability to create and produce is short lived; all that is amounted during our lifetime will be forgotten once we cease to exist. Each motion brings the lyre a different sound, which induces a different mood. Shelley may be referring to the human body and how frail it is, regardless of how strong it may feel. He compares

Erato wears a crown made up of White flowers and roses. The roses she wears shows her romantic side as a muse for love poetry. This crown also shows her status as a higher power. Second, Erato carries a lyre, a musical instrument which is comparable to a small harp. She invented this lyre with Apollo, the god of music and art. Third, she is often seen with Eros, otherwise known as Cupid. She is also seen holding golden arrows for Eros, her best acquaintance. Erato is especially known for her

However, the information I gathered from Theoi, has some different information. In The Nereid Galatea, Polyphemus is shown as a loving and a gentle cyclops. For instance, it says, "The tragic poet Philoxenos, who introduced Polyphemos playing the lyre . . . who wrote of the love of the Kyklops (Cyclopes) for Galatea .