27+ Shield Of Achilles Poem Gif. And a sky like lead. Achilles' wrath, to greece the direful spring of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing!
The shield of achilles is a poem of nine stanzas where the author w.h.auden has used an episode from the famous homeric epic 'iliad', as the name suggests.
Welcome to the daily poem. She was mother of achilles, the greatest of the greek heroes in the trojan war. Auden's poem the shield of achilles, the poet contrasts the making of achilles's shield during the trojan war with prophetic visions of the breakdown of contemporary postwar society. Looking further into the poem, it is important to notice the numerical symbolism.