His early work is pastoral lyric poem. "Pastoral" consists of ten chapters, which is written in imitation of Greek pastoral poetry. Poetry describes the natural scenery of Italian fields and praises the tranquility of rural life. After the publication of the poem, it was widely praised and attracted Octavian's attention. Among them, a few classic poems in the fourth chapter have a great influence on later generations: the times are brewing, the time sequence is about to be updated,
the virgin goddess of justice will return to the world,
peace and prosperity will reappear;
The firstborn of the new era,
has descended from the sky and will come to the earth soon.
These short poems were first regarded by Augustus and his followers as a genius prophecy of the coming new era, and later by Christianity as a revelation of the arrival of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ. It can be seen that Virgil's poems are quite profound, typically depicting the rebirth of the times, and in a sense, they are indeed ahead of the times.
Virgil has two other epoch-making works: Farming Poems and Iniad
From 37 BC to the first 3 years BC, Virgil was entrusted by MacKenaz to write four volumes of Farming Poems, each with more than 5 lines. The first volume talks about planting crops; The second volume talks about growing grapes and olives; The third volume talks about animal husbandry; The fourth volume talks about beekeeping.
Virgil's Farming Poetry was influenced by the Greek pastoral poet Hersiod, but the more direct, important and obvious influence on his creation was the Roman tradition of attaching importance to agriculture. Virgil himself has lived in the countryside since childhood, and he has a long and rich experience in rural life, and McKennas is eager to use his poems to serve Octavian's policies, all of which contributed to Virgil's devotion to the creation of Farming Poems. In his poems, he praised the hard work and greatness of the working people, Italy's beautiful environment and rich resources, and expressed his yearning and love for rural life. It is a wonder in the world poetry to describe those agricultural operations with strong local flavor with such beautiful poems. It is precisely because Virgil wrote boring farming very vividly and interestingly that he won Octavian's appreciation. On his way back to Rome from Aktium in 31 BC, Octavian once heard this poem recited for four consecutive days. Since then, Virgil and Octavian have been in closer contact. After Octavian claimed to be Augustus and established the head of state politics, Virgil's position as "the poet laureate of the emperor" was gradually recognized by the world. From then on, he devoted all his energy to the creation of the epic Neeld.
from 29 BC, Virgil began to write the epic Neeld. This epic ***12 volumes, genre imitation of Homer, describes the Roman ancestor Inias, after the fall of Troy by the Greeks, took his father, youngest son and a few Trojan residents, crossed the sea through Carthage and Sicily to reach the mouth of the Tiber River in Italy, and settled here to build the city. He described Aeneas as a shepherd and goddess, and his descendants were the founders of Rome, in order to praise the family from which Caesar and Octavian came, and Octavian was a descendant of God.
The advent of Eniade became the beginning of the European "literati epic", which further stereotyped the ancient epic in terms of characters, structure and meter. Many famous epigrams in the epic are regarded as one of the symbols of ancient Roman civilization.