similes

EPIC SIMILES

Canto V

"Like as the starlings wheel in the wintry season
      In wide and clustering flocks wing-borne, wind-borne,
      Even so they go, the souls who did this treason,

Hither and thither, an up and down, outworn,
      Hopeless of any rest--rest, did I say?
      Of the least minishings of their pangs forlorn." (ll. 40-45)

"And as the cranes go chanting their harsh lay,
Across the sky in long procession trailing,
So I beheld some shadows borne my way," (ll. 46-48)

Canto VI

"And as a ravenous and barking hound
      Falls dumb the moment he gets his teeth on food,
      And worries and bolts with never a thought beyond,

So did those beastly muzzles of the rude
      Fiend Cerberus..." (ll. 28-32)

Canto VII

"Then, as the sails bellying in the wind's swell
Tumble a-tangle at crack of snapping mast,
Even so to earth the savage monster fell" (ll. 13-15)

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