Haiku

Est exitium

Neptunus est iratus

Vult pacem mare

The Aeneid Haiku

The storm scares them all

The ropes creak and the men call

"Why couldn't we've died?"

Modern Day Epic

Harry Potter has come to be one of the very famous modern day epics. It is a series of 7 books, each one an epic initself, and the first six have been made into movies. First of all, each book is very lengthy, which is a characteristic of an epic. It is about a young wizard, Harry, who after losing his parents finds out that he is a wizard and an evil wizard, Voldemort, is set out to kill him. This may seem silly to some people, but in the book it is a very serious situation. It is life or death and it has national significance to the wizarding community. If Voldemort is not stopped he will kill Harry and anyone else who is not a pureblood wizard or witch. In the last book there is a huge war in which the hero, Harry Potter, ends up winning. It is also composed of many individual fights between Harry and Voldemort. Harry Potter is considered an epic because of all these characteristics.