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In the first half of the ode, Sophocles uses diction to portray the tone of awe directed at man's accomplishments. He uses words like wonderful, high, and shining to express this tone of awe to mans' accomplishments. They describe the accomplishments as being very great and worthy of praise. He also uses words like stallion and mountain bull to add emphisis to how good man is at that. He developes the tone by adding mans' strengthover other things by using words like tamed and skill. This suggusts that man has contole over everything that nature throws at him and this leads to the tone of awe. The tone take a sharp turn around in the second half of the ode by using the word "death." Then and after the tone chanmges from a tone of awe to a tone of frear. Later he uses words like "anaric" and "broken to push the tone of fear. The words at the begining "high" and "crest" are a foreshadow of the sudden switch of tones by suggesting a fall after the peak. |
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