CPS Week 4 Short Story

In response to this week’s theme of ‘Place’, I wrote a short story in the form of a poem. The story is about an old hero’s home in the woods, and the remnants of the hero’s trials at this place. 

By making these descriptions progressively more and more ridiculous and less heroic, I wanted to play with the readers expectations. In subverting these conventions of epic poetry, I wanted to poke fun at the way history and myth are processed by the environment. 

This was heavily inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which includes a variety of narratives that similarly lure the audience into a sense of familiarity, only to make fun of them for falling for it. Moreover, Ovid’s work is well aware of the way its audience understands place, and utilises both familiar poetic settings and the inhabitants of these settings to communicate a variety of short stories.

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