Also known as
  • Add other possible names for this topic
"The Shield of Achilles" is a poem by W. H. Auden first published in 1953. The Shield of Achilles is also the title poem of a collection of poems by Auden, published in 1955. The poem is written in two different stanza forms, one form with shorter lines, the other with longer lines. The stanzas with shorter lines describe the making of the shield by Hephaestus, and report the scenes that Thetis expects to find on the shield and which Hephaestus, in Auden's version, does not make. Thetis expects... full article at wikipedia
With the exception of Wikipedia summaries and some images the content on this page is typically distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution license or Public Domain.
The original description for this topic was automatically generated from the Wikipedia article "The Shield of Achilles" licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License .
Created by Metaweb Oct 24, 2006
Last edited by jeff Jun 16, 2008
View topic history »
Gallery add edit
There are no images for this topic yet.

Recent Discussions about The Shield of Achilles

There are no conversations on this topic. Would you like to start one?

Start the Discussion »