#epic simile

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✨What is an epic/Homeric Simile?✨

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Also a video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lQqEK6-Cyt0

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Epic Simile in Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’

The epic simile, also known as the Homeric simile, is a distinctive feature of ancient Greek epic poetry, particularly exemplified in works…

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After learning about what an epic simile is, I now want to write one.

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Animals

Sociality is primal Men versus men With teeth at their throat And claws at their chests Scratching through the outer shell Of their security and breaking down Everything that makes them feel safe; Secured in their world of knowing Where the canopy stops And the cold, hard-packed ground starts. Man is an animal Teeth bared at the first flash of competition Eyes narrowed with a sacrificial fire Burning deep like rituals That raise the spirits of warriors before. We hunt in packs Seclusive to our own people And cold to those with different howls, Different pelts and different homes. The lions eat the wolves, The wolves eat the cats, The cats eat the hawks, The hawks eat the mice. Everything narrows down To a bedrock principle: Even the insignificant want to live.

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30 DAYS OF POETRY Day XVIII – “Epic Simile”

One of my literature teachers last year shared this poem with me when we read Homer’s Iliad in class, and for his birthday, I illustrated this poem for him (quite handsomely, actually).

Right shoulder aching with day-long butchery, Left shoulder numb with dints clanged on the shield, The hero is fouled with blood, his own and others’, First slick, then sticky, then caked, starting to mat His beard—the armor deadweight all around him; His teeth grit and rattle with every jolt Of bronze-rimmed wheels behind the shit-flecked horses. But when he glimpses the mountains, the distant snow, A blankness swoons upon him, and he hears Nothing but the white vowels of the wind Brushing through stands of spears like conifers While a banner slips its staff and hangs in the blue Like a kestrel or a contrail. The hero’s death, The prize, elusive quarry of his life, Stands stock-still in her cloven tracks in snow And turns, one ear tuned to the creek’s far bank, One dished towards him. Her unstartled gaze Beads on him like a sniper’s sights, until At the clean report of a cracking poplar branch, She leaps away like luck, over rapid water, And snowfall scrims the scene like a mist of tears, Like a migraine, like sweat or blood streaming into your eyes.

[basics-of-writing-and-some-vocab]

Epic Simile or Extended Simile

a simile in an epic poem that lasts several lines with elaboration. 

example: “its crackling roots blazed and hissed - as a blacksmith plunges a glowing ax or adze in an ice-cold bath and the metal screeches steam and its temper hardens - that's the iron's strength - so the eye of Cyclops sizzled round that stake” (The Odyssey)