The Sun and the Moon in the Aeliad Book 19 Lines 373

Back of satan the broad circumference hung on his shoulders like the moon whose orb through the optic glass the tuskan artist views at evening look the movement here the fact that we're seeing by virtue of a hugely powerful simile. We could spend a whole hour unpicking this alone his spear now he's describing his spear his spear to equal which the tallest pine hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast of some great amoral so we're now seeing these Norwegian pines and we can see his spear it's as big as a huge pine tree. Listen to his battle cry and again i hear echoes of Shakespeare i hear Julius Caesar friends romance countrymen lend me your ears he says princes