There are two ways to become a better writer: write and read more. I read
the Odyssey at the age of 14 and 17. The Iliad on my return for each year.
Why these two epics 2,700 years (with traditions dating back even earlier,
to the Bronze Age) have lasted so long and proved so influential?
It is not just their age. He n t even if the stories are true to the human
condition they're still relevant. It's Homer (whatever it is) is an almost
unmatched talented storyteller, a true master of the language. But his
language and writing style isn t just a nice thing to read, it's something
that you can start using to become a more powerful and persuasive writer or
yourself speaker.
In Media Res
The most famous, both the Iliad and the Odyssey begins in the media (res in
the middle of things). The Iliad doesn t begin with the judgment of Paris
and his elopement with Helen, but covers only a few weeks in the last year
of the Trojan War. The Odyssey, meanwhile, does not begin with the sack of
Troy, but the point Ulysses is about to go home, ten years later. This
actually allows Homer to show us the action first, then fill in the details
later, the reader is probably wondering about.
Apart from jumping slower accumulation, a staple of most modern fiction,
starting your message res media actually takes advantage of a principle of
pre-persuasive: that of the unfinished. This concerns the effect Zeigarnik
I mentioned it a month ago so that people pay more attention and remember
things that aren t complete.
In addition to allowing Homer to start a memorable share, in media res
device captivates attention because his audience wants to know what was the
cause of this action (but in his time the story was much more familiar
immediate recall it today). As you're pierced, he slowly leaves questions
unanswered, in part with the catalog of ships in the two book of the Iliad,
in part by the duel between Paris and Menelaus in the book 3, and partly by
the meeting Achilles and Priam book 24. In the Odyssey, books 9-12 tie the
ends. However, the main story of the two epics is still unresolved, though,
and it can easily move his audience's attention to the action in Troy or
Ulysses returning home.
If you struggle to build your story or message, choosing to start in media
res at an appropriate time could save you some headaches.
Despite his fame, the Trojan is never actually seen directly. It s not
described in passing in the Odyssey.
Trance, Directness and Simile
A Homer is use the most famous words of simile, but s more than that. It is
actually one particular model hypnotic these similes often use. Unlimited
energy sales explains:
Ideosensory trance is another form of hypnosis that we live every day. It
is based on our innate ability to create in our mind of the visual images,
feelings, voices, sounds and even tastes and smells. When did you engage in
activities ideosensory today? When highly experienced something wrong in
real-time & # 8221. A few examples: When you imagine what you could have
lunch or dinner, when you imagine what you could do at home tonight, or
when you imagine a sales call, or mentally rehearsed what you could say to
someone else in the office today. Did you see the look on his face? Can you
hear his words and make you feel react? You were in a trance ideosensory.
Very convincing individuals can orchestrate vivid images that influence the
perception and mood of the listener. use of highly qualified sales & # 8221
magic word; to bring their prospects and customers to other worlds of
images and sounds and feelings.
This is what makes Homer constantly:
Here Asius whipped his team and the hard char, and he found the doors
closed, the house bolt shot, still, men who still held them off, hoping to
save a comrade fleeing the start, the race for ships. Right at the gates he
lashed his team purist troops crowded shouting war cries behind him, never
thinking the Argos line could still hold & # 8211; they & # 8217, to all be
rebound on their blackened shells. Idiots. There in the door they found two
men, a pair of two great fighters, son Lionhearted lancers Lapith a
pirithous offspring, robust Polypoetes the other Leonteus, a match for
murderous Ares. The two warriors standing there, in front of the imposing
gates rose like oaks that rear their peaks on a mountain peak, standing
strong winds and driving rain, day after day, their giant branches roots,
striking deep in the earth: if these two, trust all their arms, their
power, rose to Asius head down and charge recoiled. (Iliad 12.142 to 60)
Notice two other aspects of what make the simile / trance even more
powerful. The first is obviously the natural element involved. People have
always respected and feared nature, as Robert Greene points out in the 48
Laws of Power. You also know the nature. It doesn t have to be explained to
you. The second element is the repeated use action words (standing,
driving, branching, enter), that anchors the text and makes it more
impactful (remember that the most persuasive speakers use action words
while the least persuasive use passive words).
Here's another of the same kind:
When the Trojans saw Ideomeneus fierce as fire, he and his arms aid process
Blazoned beautiful, they all shouted and accused in the press and a sudden
battle, pitched broken Sterns ships. As shots whirl wind and shatter under
the shrill gusts days when thick dust drift lie piled on the roads and
winds whip dirt into a swirling cloud of dense & # 8211; if the battle
erupted, chaos storming, inflamed troops, slashing each other with bronze
mounting carnage manslaughtering battle bristling with slender spears,
sharpened spears brandished in hand and ripping flesh and dazzled eyes now
blind with bronze shine, shiny flashing helmets, fighters plowing in a
mass. Only a veteran hardened heart could look at this fight and still
shudder of joy and never feel terror. (Iliad 13.384 to 99)
And what about when people actually go down?
Under his ear, son of Telamon stabbed with a heavy spear, ripped the gun
down and went as a large ash on a landmark mountain ridge that shimmers in
the distance & # 8211; chopped by an ax, leaves running with sap, littering
the earth & # 8230; if Imbrius fell, the shock end of bronze armor against
him hard. (Iliad 13.211 to 16)
Finally, to crystallize the item, I leave with one of my favorite passages
that centers on another meaning & # 8211; sound.
But against them was his glorious Hector Trojans & # 8230; and now they
have drawn the battle line choked tight, blue-haired god of the sea and
Hector shot in the arm, he lead the Trojans, driving god Argos & # 8211;
and wild surf pounded the ships and shelter, squadrons clashed with
shattering battle cries rising. Not so loud the bellowing breakers against
the shore, taken from the open sea by the north wind's sudden explosion,
not so much the fire noise whipped a roaring raging fire in a mountain
gorge, raging through the wood not so strong as the wind howls in the oak
leaf crowns when he hits his no fury branches Shoot & # 8211; nothing so
hard that the cries of the Trojans, cries of Achaeans terrible war cries,
the armies storming against each other. (Iliad 14.461 to 74)
There s no arguing with these passages, not parsing their meaning in your
analytical mind. They hit your senses directly. Homer, you see the
brilliance of the bronze warriors clashing in high heat like fire, you hear
their cries you hear the howling winds, and when people die, they go down
like trees or bellowing bulls. The extraordinary is given an ordinary
experience you know. If you're explaining, you're losing in gravitas
persuasive. Homer never explained. It also uses never passive language.
When using his similes or not, language is always direct and powerful.
Conclusion
Understand: people live mostly in the stories. Scott Adams likes to call
different movies on the same screen and # 8221. The facts themselves are
mostly boring time. They should focus on a story that's moving. The best
way you can refine your technique, if you want to write a great story or
simply develop a compelling message, the machine is generally the same. The
best way to improve is. Write more info In this and many other areas of
life, Homer still stands as a titan, 27 centuries later.
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