Project Gutenberg 2008-06-04 Public domain in the USA. 79 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 Reading ease score: 72.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. 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 97222 96882 2024-10-11T06:37:59.697455 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 115254 2024-10-11T06:38:06.279404 application/epub+zip 113939 2024-10-11T06:38:03.657428 application/epub+zip 99767 2024-10-11T06:38:01.576446 application/epub+zip 241891 2024-10-11T06:38:08.199461 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 234390 2024-10-11T06:38:05.539443 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 210079 2022-09-12T05:34:18.697178 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 89049 88777 2024-10-11T06:37:59.377470 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 21238 2024-10-11T06:38:08.330648 application/rdf+xml 15530 2024-10-11T06:38:02.977437 image/jpeg 3800 2024-10-11T06:38:02.697431 image/jpeg 117763 2024-10-11T06:37:59.708438 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 en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia