![]() ![]() This tone is not just built from Boethius himself, but also a host of muses that influence him. He is emotionally at the bottom of a pit and composes no way out. Such lack leads to an overbearing melancholic tone. This descent from a good life to suffering comes directly from fortune, more specifically the lack thereof. We learn that he began his life with much, which has fallen apart before his eyes as old age crept in. The Consolation opens with the first poem in which the speaker, Boethius, bemoans his outcast state. Why was Boethius swapping between two different modes of communication in his treatise? To at least try and answer this question, my group looked at the first and last poems, discerning their function with regard to their own content, and with regard to the rest of the work. ![]() Reading Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy for the first time, the interplay of prose and poetry immediately jumped out. Each person has their own section in which they compile their thoughts about the readings, as well as offer reflections on the ideas other members have brought up in their own posts. In the spirit of collaborative effort, our group has decided to write several pieces that build off one another in the style of a discussion board thread. ![]()
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