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Anaphora: same/identical- emphazises monotony of Odysseus’ meaningless adventures
mundane
sad, hopeless, given up (receding hairline)
defeated
bleak, crumbled
1 Always the setting forth was the same,
2 Same sea, same dangers waiting for him
3 As though he had got nowhere but older.
4 Behind him on the receding shore
5 The identical reproaches, and somewhere
6 Out before him, the unravelling patience
7 He was wedded to. There were the islands
8 Each with its woman and twining welcome
9 To be navigated, and one to call “home.”
10 The knowledge of all that he betrayed
...
16 And which, improbable, remote, and true,
17 Was the one he kept sailing home to?
: bleak and weary
trapped
deep sadness
empty, alone
10 The knowledge of all that he betrayed
11 Grew till it was the same whether he stayed
12 Or went. Therefore he went. And what wonder
13 If sometimes he could not remember
14 Which was the one who wished on his departure
15 Perils that he could never sail through,
16 And which, improbable, remote, and true,
17 Was the one he kept sailing home to?
1 Always the setting forth was the same,
2 Same sea, same dangers waiting for him
3 As though he had got nowhere but older.
4 Behind him on the receding shore
5 The identical reproaches, and somewhere
6 Out before him, the unravelling patience
7 He was wedded to. There were the islands
8 Each with its woman and twining welcome
9 To be navigated, and one to call “home.”
Paraphrase: Dealing with the same old, same old for 20 years got him nothing but older.
Title again: a new view of Odysseus
Theme: Heroes aren’t all as good as we think they are. They really are human and are therefore not perfect.
Signifier: When adventure becomes mundane, man becomes lost at sea in more ways than one.
Odysseus:
i dont know how to get this to look like the other slides.... help lol... I just put in my thoughts on the google docs thing
How would you describe Odysseus?
But W. S. Merwin describes him a little differently...
Rhythm/meter/rhyme scheme- unrhymed free verse
Title: Straightforward ("Song" is beautiful)
Paraphrase: Even if Odysseus wasn’t faithful while he was gone, you, Penelope, were unfaithful also. So greet him warmly and just be glad that he is home.
Connotation:
"Little soul" (line 1)
" It beehoves you" (line 6)
Suggests Penelope's inferiority/childishness due to her mistakes
Theme: Heroes aren't all as good as we think they are. They really are human and are therefore not perfect.
•Brave and heroic in myth, unfaithfulness is downplayed
•Cheated on his wife multiple times in reality
•inspiring, patient queen who ignored multiple suitors in myth
•royalty isn’t above humanity, most likely cheated on her husband
Attitude: frank, slightly reprimanding
Title: Penelope's Song wasn't so beautiful
Shifts: none
Signifier: No hero or heroine is above being human and having some flawed morals.
1 Little soul, little perpetually undressed one,
2 do now as I bid you, climb
3 the shelf-like branches of the spruce tree;
4 wait at the top, attentive, like
5 a sentry or look-out. He will be home soon;
6 it behooves you to be
7 generous. You have not been completely
8 perfect either; with your troublesome body
9 you have done things you shouldn’t
10 discuss in poems. Therefore
11 call out to him over the open water, over the bright water
12 with your dark song, with your grasping,
13 unnatural song—passionate,
14 like Marie Callas. Who
15 wouldn’t want you? Whose most demonic appetite
16 could you possibly fail to answer? Soon
17 he will return from wherever he goes in the meantime,
18 suntanned from his time away, wanting
19 his grilled chicken. Ah, you must greet him,
20 you must shake the boughs of the tree
21 to get his attention,
22 but carefully, carefully, lest
23 his beautiful face be marred
24 by too many falling needles.