Epic art is art that is over and above the normal, whose context lasts for all generations.
Modern life is life in the now, building on the past but living in the present.
Can there be heros in modern life?
Aurora believes there can be heros in modern life, the everyman who lives and breathes the ideals of that society, or doesn't. Heros are only heros when they're recognized. Even if someone does something great, but no one ever knows, they're not thought to be heros. But putting people, whether they be Alexander or King Arthur or the widow next door, into a poem immortalizes them and makes them heros. Heros of the past were normal people like us: they lived, they grew old and they died - time and literature has made them into something larger than they were. I think Aurora believes that because we are living in the "now" we are unable to see the heros that are amongst us, not enough time has passed; however, they are here if we write poems that reflect our times and not that of the past, whose heros have long since died.
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