THE TRIUMPH OF ACHILLES ANALYSIS
In the poem of The Triumph of Achilles, the poem is used as a metaphor to human condition as it charts the evolution of self. Throughout the collection, the self’s choice remains constant: to enter the world of human relation or to live in the perfected world of the mind. The speaker in the poem locates the struggle for the self in the argument because the body will perish, the self will be betrayed. Neither fully vulnerable nor entirely exposed, the self on the page comes as close to perfection and protection as possible. Gluck’s compromise, then, is the divided self. Like Achilles, who is part mortal and part immortal, the speakers celebrate existence.
In the poem of The Triumph of Achilles, the poem is used as a metaphor to human condition as it charts the evolution of self. Throughout the collection, the self’s choice remains constant: to enter the world of human relation or to live in the perfected world of the mind. The speaker in the poem locates the struggle for the self in the argument because the body will perish, the self will be betrayed. Neither fully vulnerable nor entirely exposed, the self on the page comes as close to perfection and protection as possible. Gluck’s compromise, then, is the divided self. Like Achilles, who is part mortal and part immortal, the speakers celebrate existence.