Virgil spent his youth in the end of Roman Republic, so he suffered tremendous fear and hatred because of the political turmoil and the battle of hegemony. He wasn’t healthy so he couldn’t join neither the military nor the politic. Virgil never married and had lived as a hermit until he became famous as a poet. The author projects his hearts deepest wishes, desires though Aeneid who is a hero. However, what makes this poem extraordinary among class poems is that it treats individual sacrifice and pain onto this poem as much as the public.
A questions arose that the Rome must be built even at a cost of a lover’s sacrifice? Aeneid would do the same thing if it was his daughter or son? It would make me think what/why I’m doing now and what I would choose for the future.