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"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...
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