Project Gutenberg 2008-06-04 Public domain in the USA. 44 Shakespeare, William 1564 1616 Shakspeare, William Shakspere, William Guizot, François 1787 1874 Guizot, Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, François Pierre Guillaume Guizot, M. (François) Guisot, M. (François) Guizot, Monsieur (François) Guizot, François Venus et Adonis Produced by Paul Murray, Rénald Lévesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr) "Venus et Adonis" by William Shakespeare is a narrative poem written during the late 16th century. The poem is an exploration of love and desire through the mythological figures of Venus, the goddess of love, and Adonis, a beautiful young man who is indifferent to love. The work focuses on themes of unrequited love, beauty, and the inevitability of loss. In the poem, Venus passionately pursues Adonis, who prefers the thrill of hunting to romantic love. Despite her fervent advances, Adonis remains resistant and somewhat disdainful towards her affections. As the story unfolds, Venus pleads with Adonis to embrace love and warns him of the dangers he may face while hunting, particularly from the ferocious wild boar. Ultimately, he neglects her warnings, which leads to his tragic death at the tusks of the beast. Heartbroken, Venus transforms her grief into a flower that memorializes Adonis, symbolizing both the beauty and the fragility of love. The poem serves not only as a tale of love's bittersweet nature but also as a meditation on beauty and mortality. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr Venus (Roman deity) -- Poetry Adonis (Greek deity) -- Poetry PR Text FR Poésie Browsing: Literature Browsing: Poetry 97214 96882 2024-09-11T06:18:05.655395 2023-09-11T09:37:23.047400 text/html text/html 90705 2008-06-04T14:54:02 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 36442 2008-06-13T12:14:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 91656 2024-09-11T06:18:09.245347 application/epub+zip 90503 2024-09-11T06:18:06.994353 application/epub+zip 90503 2024-09-11T06:18:06.167370 application/epub+zip 217532 2024-09-11T06:18:10.919363 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 210055 2024-09-11T06:18:08.715357 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 210079 2022-09-12T05:34:18.697178 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 89049 88777 2024-09-11T06:18:05.412363 2023-09-11T09:37:22.822380 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 87294 2008-06-04T14:54:00 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 35365 2008-06-13T12:14:30 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 20084 2024-09-11T06:18:11.050332 application/rdf+xml 15533 2024-09-11T06:18:06.507410 image/jpeg 3806 2024-09-11T06:18:06.335373 image/jpeg 95402 2024-09-11T06:18:05.666360 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia