9/06/2011

AUDIOBOOKS - VENUS AND ADONIS

    
Venus and Adonis (shakespear poem)
This is a poem written in 1592-1593, with a plot based on passages from Ovid`s Metamorphoses. here the author uses constantlu shifting tone ans perspective to present contrasting views of the nature of love.

As Adonis is preparing to go hunting, venus appears, she seduces him, and they begin a passionate affair, which adonis is not very interested in, thinking he is too young, and cares only for hunting, but Adonis is soon killed in a hunting accident.

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