https://padlet.com/prao11/7fn03nes31cm Shashank Rao and Johnson Tran en-us 2018-08-29 15:23:58 UTC 2018-08-31 03:28:01 UTC hello@padlet.com jtran41 https://padlet.com/prao11/7fn03nes31cm/wish/276279161 The theme of this poem is hardship. There is a woman empathising with Penelope and she is expressing how women go through so much. She also has the same situation as Penelope. In line 14, the woman says that when Odysseus left Penelope, he didn't stay loyal to her. Now, she is scared that the same misfortune might conform to her.]]> 2018-08-29 15:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/prao11/7fn03nes31cm/wish/276279161 prao11 https://padlet.com/prao11/7fn03nes31cm/wish/276279362 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.]]> 2018-08-29 15:32:26 UTC https://padlet.com/prao11/7fn03nes31cm/wish/276279362 prao11 https://padlet.com/prao11/7fn03nes31cm/wish/276623214 There are several examples of imagery in this poem.  For example, "Your arms get tired, and the back of your neck gets tight" (5). The quote shows that it gets too tiring holding on to something forever.]]> 2018-08-30 15:24:03 UTC https://padlet.com/prao11/7fn03nes31cm/wish/276623214 prao11 https://padlet.com/prao11/7fn03nes31cm/wish/276623887 The tone of the poem changes a lot. The beginning "I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of the apron" (1) shows off the emotion of the moments. The middle is regretful and longing because the text says "This is an ancient gesture, authentic, antique, In the very best tradition, classic, Greek" (11-12).  It means the author loves  Greek Culture.]]> 2018-08-30 15:25:29 UTC https://padlet.com/prao11/7fn03nes31cm/wish/276623887 prao11 https://padlet.com/prao11/7fn03nes31cm/wish/276625701 The perspective of this poem is different from that of the Odyssey.  The perspective is that of a woman looking back on Penelope and her emotions, instead of seeing her as just the husband of Odysseus. Instead, the author focuses on how much Penelope was suffering instead of Odysseus and how his absence affected her.]]> 2018-08-30 15:29:12 UTC https://padlet.com/prao11/7fn03nes31cm/wish/276625701 prao11 https://padlet.com/prao11/7fn03nes31cm/wish/276627426 There is no directly stated metaphorical language in this poem.]]> 2018-08-30 15:32:40 UTC https://padlet.com/prao11/7fn03nes31cm/wish/276627426 jtran41 https://padlet.com/prao11/7fn03nes31cm/wish/276776046 There is rhyme in the end of lines 4-6 like "night", "tight" and "light".]]> 2018-08-31 00:11:48 UTC https://padlet.com/prao11/7fn03nes31cm/wish/276776046