Death is rather an object than a human so it is being personified. He understands that the death of him and his men is rapidly approaching, since it is huge and sits right on the battlefield.
He also realizes that he is the one to make it disappear, in other words: to save his men. Gebera, C. Odysseus is in the. Personification in each of the poems portrays how people undertake journeys to pursue goals based on greed but instead find themselves during the journey and come to realize that their original purpose was trivial. Odysseus discovers more about himself through his self control, and lack thereof.
Odysseus also sees some of the servants sneak off to have sex with the suitors. He could have unveiled himself then and attempted to kill the suitors and punish them, as well as prove his strength. Instead he waits for a better moment so that he does not risk the lives of his son and wife only to demonstrate his superiority, a mistake he made previously when calling out his name to the cyclops.
Odysseus also realizes more about himself while on the journey. He makes the realization that he is no god, only a mere mortal whose imperfect decisions can often put other people at risk. This particularly takes place at the beginning of her voyage after she finally realizes that she must go. Emotion is given to the house through personification which depicts how the narrator is feeling. She is being held back and frightened to go off alone in fear of abandoning the voices that ask for her help.
Mend my life! Penelope is like the shipwrecked sailors. Her life has been, in effect, lost at sea without her husband. Realizing his return is like catching sight of land. Homer's poetics include other noticeable devices that may seem odd to a modern reader. One is his extensive use of epithets. An epithet is a term or phrase used to characterize the nature of a character, an object, or an event. Fagles spares the reader slightly, while being faithful to the text, by referring to "Dawn with her rose-red fingers" the first line of Book 2, for example.
Athena, sometimes called Pallas Athena or simply Pallas, often carries the epithet "sparkling-eyed" l. Among other characteristics, hair gets a lot of attention in epithets. Circe, for example, is "the nymph with lovely braids" Various limbs are extolled. In this metaphor, the narrator compares Odysseus stringing his bow to shoot an arrow to a skilled musician tuning a stringed instrument.
The more she spoke, the more a deep desire for tears welled up inside his breast—he wept as he held the wife he loved, the soul of loyalty, in his arms at last. Joy, warm as the joy that shipwrecked sailors feel when they catch sight of land. Ace your assignments with our guide to The Odyssey! SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Why does Telemachus go to Pylos and Sparta? How does Odysseus escape Polyphemus? Why does Odysseus kill the suitors?
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