Cleopatra Act 5 Scene 2 Essay
In Act 5 Scene 2 Lines 82-92, after the death scene of Antony, Cleopatra reminiscences about Antony and begins to describe his appearance and the powerful persona that he carried as a man, lover and soldier of Rome. Cleopatra’s description of Antony portrays an image to the readers of what Antony looked like and was viewed as being personality-wise.
“His legs bestrid the ocean; his reared arm/ crested the world: his voice was propertied/ as all the tuned spheres, and that to friends;/ but when he meant to quail and shake the orb, / he was a rattling thunder. For his bounty, / there was no winter in’t: an autumn ‘twas/ that grew the more by reaping. His delights/ were dolphinlike, they showed his back above/ the element they lived in. In
“His legs bestrid the ocean; his reared arm/ crested the world: his voice was propertied/ as all the tuned spheres, and that to friends;/ but when he meant to quail and shake the orb, / he was a rattling thunder. For his bounty, / there was no winter in’t: an autumn ‘twas/ that grew the more by reaping. His delights/ were dolphinlike, they showed his back above/ the element they lived in. In