https://padlet.com/ngranberg/7gmjou78fimh Natalie, Cesar, Ethan en-us 2017-08-30 14:53:36 UTC 2021-02-10 01:40:48 UTC hello@padlet.com nferguson11 https://padlet.com/ngranberg/7gmjou78fimh/wish/183700405 Tracy Marks

I, wanderer, warrior,
Strategist, explorer,
Inventor of schemes which conquered Troy,
Outwitting even Poseidon's one-eyed son.
I, who enchanted goddesses
But escaped their grasp,
Could not be seduced by Sirens,
Tied to the mast of past longings, heard another's song,
Saw another's face,
The silky black tendrils of her hair weaving through the tapestry of my thoughts.

Penelope, are you more than memory?
In my dreams I become your loom,
You ravel and unravel my hopes.

Are you the Penelope I knew or have you too forgotten,
Foundered, as I did in that mad mad war, in these madder wanderings,
And even now in the wonderings of my tide-tossed mind.
Penelope, do you wait for me?
What have I lost in this world of brawn and manly prowess,
Where women are goddesses or slaves,
Above or below me,
Where human hearts dare not yearn
For what they cannot claim or reclaim?

In the mist I see Penelope in her garden, 
Watering the blossoms of tomorrow,
Penelope in her room winding the warp, 
Twisting the skeins of yesterday,
Letting slip through her fingers year after year, the colors of the seasons.

Am I then in love only with memory?
I, the wily Odysseus, humbled by wisps of dreams
Waking me at dawn to stare at the rising tumescent sun swollen on the horizon,
Behind me always.
But only in the dusk of this vast western emptiness,
Lies the warming call of home.

Penelope, 
Must memory alone sustain me,
Or do you live outside my mind,
Daily scanning the craggy shore of Ithaca
Peering across that fog-gray desolation, 
Weaving into your woolly nights the foam of this churning sea,
Waiting for me? ]]> 2017-08-30 14:57:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ngranberg/7gmjou78fimh/wish/183700405 elivshits https://padlet.com/ngranberg/7gmjou78fimh/wish/183707746 Lines 1 - 2 show consonance with "er".
Lines 18 - 19 show alliteration with "w".
Line 15 shows alliteration with "m".]]> 2017-08-30 15:16:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ngranberg/7gmjou78fimh/wish/183707746 ngranberg https://padlet.com/ngranberg/7gmjou78fimh/wish/183707985 Melancholy because Odysseus misses Penelope but slightly pleasant because he talks of her good qualities. Line 13 is an example of this. --> Raveling and unraveling his hopes is showing both a pleasant and a melancholy ]]> 2017-08-30 15:17:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ngranberg/7gmjou78fimh/wish/183707985 cespinosierra1 https://padlet.com/ngranberg/7gmjou78fimh/wish/183708351 ¨You don´t know what you have until you loose  it¨
This theme conveys our theme because that them conveys what the whole poem is about. On line 11 it says ¨Penelope, are you more than memory¨ that line can describe what the whole poem is about ]]> 2017-08-30 15:18:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ngranberg/7gmjou78fimh/wish/183708351 ngranberg https://padlet.com/ngranberg/7gmjou78fimh/wish/183710575 An example of figurative language in this poem is in line 8. "Tied to the mast of past belongings..." (Marks 8). Odysseus is not physically tied to a mast on a boat, however, he is referring to the previous lines when he talks about the sirens. Being tied to a real mast is how he escaped them. Now, he is referring to his longing for Penelope.]]> 2017-08-30 15:23:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ngranberg/7gmjou78fimh/wish/183710575 nferguson11 https://padlet.com/ngranberg/7gmjou78fimh/wish/183710886 The viewpoint of "Even Odysseus Yearns" is different from the Odyssey because the Odyssey doesn't show how Odysseus thinks about Penelope in as much detail. The Odyssey still shows how Odysseus misses Penelope on Kalypso's island, but doesn't show his specific thoughts.]]> 2017-08-30 15:24:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ngranberg/7gmjou78fimh/wish/183710886