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A different perspective is seen throughout the poem that is different from the Odysseys's. The perspective is that of an onlooker from the future, looking back on Penelope and taking a good, hard look at her emotion, instead of seeing her as just Odysseus's. Instead, the author focuses on how much Penelope was suffering instead of Odysseus and how his absence affected her

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yo come on people give me the gesture of the story

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thank u all the kids in this class who r giving me answers lolz

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everybody say thank you to ben lisk for carrying this padlet

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i believe the tone is actually melancholy since in the story, they are feel sorrow and dismal stuff

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the gesture said in the story is about crying

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who was the person speaking in the story?

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Repetition occurs in this poem by offering similar lines that are repeated throughout, such as "I thought as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron," and the phrase"... did this too." occurs twice as well.

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The poem offers an indirect rhyme sequence as it only rhymes in certain random spots around the writing. One solace of this is that the rhymes occur at the end of the sentence.

Examples:
"...gets tight"
"...never be light"

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An example of very powerful imagery is the phrase, "Your arms get tired, and the back of your neck gets tight." The quote shows how even if you try to hold on to something forever, you will eventually have to let go, as it gets too tiring holding on forever.

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A different perspective is seen throughout the poem that is different from the Odyssey's. The perspective is that of an onlooker from the future, looking back on Penelope and taking a good, hard look at her emotions, instead of seeing her as just Odysseus's. Instead, the author focuses on how much Penelope was suffering instead of Odysseus and how his absence affected her.

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In the poem, there is no direct metaphorical language. However, the suggested metaphor is that the housewife is like Penelope when the author states,"Penelope did this too." This is to link the speaker in the poem to Penelope and the  Odyssey.

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The tone of the poem is unusual because it changes a couple times throughout the poem. The beginning and end were sad, highlighted in the text: "I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of the apron ... To the assembled throng that he was much too moved to speak," showing off the emotion of the moments. Then, towards the middle, it is more of a wistful tone, reading "This is an ancient gesture, authentic, antique, In the very best tradition, classic, Greek," reflecting the authors love for Greek Culture and the past.

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An Ancient Gesture: Edna St. Vincent Milley

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An Ancient Gesture: Edna St. Vincent Milley

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I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron:
Penelope did this too.
And more than once: you can't keep weaving all day
And undoing it all through the night;
Your arms get tired, and the back of your neck gets tight;
And along towards morning, when you think it will never be light,
And your husband has been gone, and you don't know where, for years.
Suddenly you burst into tears;
There is simply nothing else to do.

And I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron:
This is an ancient gesture, authentic, antique,
In the very best tradition, classic, Greek;
Ulysses did this too.
But only as a gesture,—a gesture which implied
To the assembled throng that he was much too moved to speak.
He learned it from Penelope…
Penelope, who really cried.

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The theme of the poem is the continuity of human emotions throughout history. The line that best explains this is, "I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron: Penelope did this too." which is almost foreshadowing of what the rest of the piece will be about, and that is, human's emotion through history

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