HORACE'S PERSONALITY FROM HIS POEMS

FATALISTIC: (He feels that life is short and that you should enjoy yourself while you can and have fun while you are young; everyone dies in the end and you should not waste your life worrying, thinking about wealth…etc) egs in Gather Ye Rosebuds; Enjoy the Present Hour ("carpe diem"); A Quiet Life; We All Must Die; Enjoy Your Possessions While They Are Yours"; Ode to Spring;

ENJOYS THE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE: (He likes to enjoy good company of his friends; wine; flirting; good food and especially the beauties of the countryside). Gather Ye Rosebuds; Enjoy the Present Hour; Enjoy Your Possessions…:Journey to Brundisium; Cease to Mourne).

MELANCHOLY AT TIMES: (Sometimes the darker side of his awareness of the shortness of life and the inevitability of death is predominant eg Ode to Spring; We All Must Die; Enjoy Your Possessions…)

HUMOUROUS AND CAN LAUGH AT HIMSELF: (He has a wry, subtle sense of humour, especially he his good at seeing his own and other people's foibles) The Bore; Journey to Brundisium; Town Mouse and Country Mouse; Rustic Joys.

LOVE OF SIMPLE COUNTRY LIFE: (Rustic joys; Quiet Life; Enjoy the Present Hour; Town Mouse…; )

HOMELY WISDOM: (Town Mouse…; The Good Man Need Fear Nothing; Rustic Joys; Gather Ye…; Enjoy the Present Hour).