... to allow us, the audience, to come closer into the minds of the heroes by showing you how they would react to the retelling of their ordeals. This method of poetry is much more forceful in emphasizing the tragic aspects of war. Even further, we have yet to explain why he "wept as a woman weeps". (viii 522) The poet moves on ... on the body of her husband who has fallen before his own city and people, fighting bravely in defense of his home and children. She wails aloud and flings her arms about him as he lies gasping for breath and dying, but her enemies beat her from behind about the b...

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