Metamorphoses, Yeonsoo Kim

It was definitely harder to focus on following story line than the Gilgamesh. I guess because it is more likely written as a poem that is called “dactylic hexameter”. The repeating pattern was getting me bored and making story seemed quite scattered itself. But I liked how Ovid described gods have emotion like human. Jealousy, depression, and love… Since they are the most common topic in the literature, I cannot say the story of creation and the origin of human should be different somehow. I wonder how it would feel reading Metamorphoses with novel version. I think it could be much more interesting. Sometimes the structure or style of writing determines the mood that is present in the story.