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... Odysseus , Orestes and Telemachus , and the implication is that the fate of Agamemnon is comparable to that of Odysseus , and that the poet has deliberately introduced the terms of the comparison . Nor can there any longer be much ...
... Odysseus , Orestes and Telemachus , and the implication is that the fate of Agamemnon is comparable to that of Odysseus , and that the poet has deliberately introduced the terms of the comparison . Nor can there any longer be much ...
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... Odysseus later emphatically denies , and with good reason — the form of marriage she here alludes to is decidedly matrilocal , and even without Penelope in the way , Odysseus would reject it for the same reasons that he refused to live ...
... Odysseus later emphatically denies , and with good reason — the form of marriage she here alludes to is decidedly matrilocal , and even without Penelope in the way , Odysseus would reject it for the same reasons that he refused to live ...
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... Odysseus reaches Ithaca . Otherwise , both applications of the athletic contest are relevant to the festivities in Phacacia . If we assume that the competition was originally for the hand of Nausicaa ( and the story gives every ...
... Odysseus reaches Ithaca . Otherwise , both applications of the athletic contest are relevant to the festivities in Phacacia . If we assume that the competition was originally for the hand of Nausicaa ( and the story gives every ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Traditional Metaphor | 15 |
The Metaphor | 75 |
Copyright | |
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actual Aeneid allegory ancient appears Arnold aspect beauty becomes beginning Book Byron Canto character Childe claim close concerned contrast course critics death deep early elements emerges emotional episode exile existence experience exploration eyes fact fate feeling felt figure final force freedom function hand heart hero Homeric human idea imagination important impulses interesting Italy journey kind land landscape later light lines living Mariner Mariner's meaning metaphor mind moral move myth nature object observe Odysseus once passage pattern peace poem poet poet's poetic poetry present quest relation religious represents ritual scene Scholar seems seen sense significant society soul spiritual stands stanzas story structure suggests symbolic takes things thou thought traditional tree true truth turn Ulysses vision voyage wanderer Wordsworth