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What is an epic?   “Epic is a long verse narrative on a serious subject, told in a formal and elevated style, and centered on a heroic or quasi-divine figure on whose actions depends the fate of a tribe, a nation, or (in the instance of John Milton's Paradise Lost ) the human race”(Abrams, 2012, P.107).  In potential size, epic is hugely ambitious undertaking to articulate the most essential aspects of a culture, from its origin stories to its ideals of social behavior, social structure, relationship to the natural world and to the supernatural. (Epic as Genre by Richard P. Martin). Epics have some pivotal and distinct features that distinguish them from other genres of literary works.  Epic features:  a. Epic is frequently the first or the oldest literary work in the culture and is usually very long. (Epics are the shapers of culture).  b. The epic opens in the middle of an action. (Media Res). c. The setting is very vast, covering many nations, the world,...

Shakespeare's definition of love in sonnet 130. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.    And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare    As any she belied with false compare. Shakespeare a great English poet, wrote about 154 sonnets and the sonnet 130 he wrote was for his mistress, The dark lady. Her color complexion was not dark, she did some unpleasant things to him that's why he mentioned her as a dark lady in some of his sonnets. Shakespeare described his dark lady in an exceptional w...