Reading Notes: Homer's Odyssey, Part B

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One thing I greatly enjoyed from this piece was the personification that is used in the first section of the story. "Still, Circe of the lovely tresses, dread goddess with a human voice, sent us a good companion to help us, a fresh wind from astern of our dark-prowed ship to fill the sail. " The narrator talks of Circe providing help in the form of "a companion" and that companion is the wind. This instills a feeling that the wind is sentient, and is capable of being companions with people. It also personifies the ship with, "And when we had set the tackle in order fore and aft, we sat down, and let the wind and the helmsman keep her course. All day long with straining sail she glided over the sea, till the sun set and all the waves grew dark." This gives another impression that the ship is actually a living being, as it is referred to as a woman. I like personification of non-living objects in stories, and actually think a lot of mythology can be explained through personification, similes, and metaphors being unraveled. So I will attempt to use language of this caliber as well when I am writing my own story.

Bibliography:

  • Tony Kline, Homer's Odyssey, from http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2014/05/odyssey-ghosts-of-erebus.html

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