As previously discussed, sailing has a direct link with poetry and we can interpret this scene as an allegory to poetry. First of all, winter is a time of ignava, which appears to have a very negative connotation since some of its translations are: sluggish, without spirit, laziness. On the one hand, poets are associated with leisure and idleness, in this note we can interpret the sailing metaphor to represent the triumphs and accomplishments both agriculture and poetry have. In these lines Virgil encourages and praises the season where the farmers regain their strength and consume their produce while paralleling it to poetry; however this relaxing and tranquil tone quickly disappears in the following lines since he reminds the farmers about the tasks needed during winter. Overall Virgil seems to suggest that idleness makes the farmers happy and if the farmers are happy, the crops will be bountiful too. Nonetheless there is always an impeding and external force that is beyond their
As previously discussed, sailing has a direct link with poetry and we can interpret this scene as an allegory to poetry. First of all, winter is a time of ignava, which appears to have a very negative connotation since some of its translations are: sluggish, without spirit, laziness. On the one hand, poets are associated with leisure and idleness, in this note we can interpret the sailing metaphor to represent the triumphs and accomplishments both agriculture and poetry have. In these lines Virgil encourages and praises the season where the farmers regain their strength and consume their produce while paralleling it to poetry; however this relaxing and tranquil tone quickly disappears in the following lines since he reminds the farmers about the tasks needed during winter. Overall Virgil seems to suggest that idleness makes the farmers happy and if the farmers are happy, the crops will be bountiful too. Nonetheless there is always an impeding and external force that is beyond their