https://padlet.com/plevitt1/7non6msl26bf By: W.S. Merwin en-us 2019-01-29 20:32:13 UTC 2025-11-22 15:38:23 UTC hello@padlet.com plevitt1 https://padlet.com/plevitt1/7non6msl26bf/wish/325609265 Always the setting forth was the same,
Same sea, same dangers waiting for him
As though he had got nowhere but older.
Behind him on the receding shore
The identical reproaches, and somewhere
Out before him, the unraveling patience
He was wedded to.  There were the islands
Each with its woman and twining welcome
To be navigated, and one to call “home.”
The knowledge of all that he betrayed
Grew till it was the same whether he stayed
Or went.  Therefore he went.  And what wonder
If sometimes he could not remember
Which was the one who wished on his departure
Perils that he could never sail through,
And which, improbable, remote, and true,
Was the one he kept sailing home to?

]]> 2019-01-29 20:42:41 UTC https://padlet.com/plevitt1/7non6msl26bf/wish/325609265 tfisher42 https://padlet.com/plevitt1/7non6msl26bf/wish/325663344 The theme of this poem is overcoming fear. Odysseus is afraid of the sea, even though he has had to cross it several times. He is unsure of wheather or not he will even make it home. It shows how Odysseus has never really overcome his fear of the sea, yet now it stands between him and his family. The message is similar to “ in the cave we fear lies the treasure that we seek.” He must face his fear in order to make it back to his family, even if it means that he doesn’t make it.]]> 2019-01-30 00:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/plevitt1/7non6msl26bf/wish/325663344 tfisher42 https://padlet.com/plevitt1/7non6msl26bf/wish/325666068 “Out before him, the unraveling patience he was wedded to” (Mersin 12). This shows how much Odysseus had to wait before he could leave to travel home. In a marriage it was generally a long-time commitment, and Odysseus’s stay on Kalypso’s island is being compared to this.]]> 2019-01-30 00:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/plevitt1/7non6msl26bf/wish/325666068 plevitt1 https://padlet.com/plevitt1/7non6msl26bf/wish/325684120 The view point of this story is the same as it is in the Odyssey. Instead of being first person from Odysseus it is told by an omnipresent narrator talking about Odysseus emotions and what he is doing. This allows more complex emotions to be told and metaphors to convey it easier.]]> 2019-01-30 02:31:58 UTC https://padlet.com/plevitt1/7non6msl26bf/wish/325684120 plevitt1 https://padlet.com/plevitt1/7non6msl26bf/wish/325684942 The main use of metaphorical language is comparing Odysseus' struggle on the island to being wed to it. This is being said because of how much he was attached to the island.]]> 2019-01-30 02:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/plevitt1/7non6msl26bf/wish/325684942 plevitt1 https://padlet.com/plevitt1/7non6msl26bf/wish/326041036 The tone of this story is fear and the fear that comes from previous bad experiences. Because this is a poem about Odysseus' worries about heading into sea It has a very negative look at traveling into the sea. He is thinking of all of the things that could go wrong and all of the other bad things that have gone wrong on the other times he went to sea.This can be seen when it uses words like peril, betrayed and unraveling to show how the previous experiences have shaped his thoughts on the sea.]]> 2019-01-30 20:47:30 UTC https://padlet.com/plevitt1/7non6msl26bf/wish/326041036 tfisher42 https://padlet.com/plevitt1/7non6msl26bf/wish/326041158 "Same sea, Same dangers..." (Merwin 2). This is an example of alliteration, because the letter 's' is used at the beginning of a word three times in the same line. This also shows repetition of the word 'same', and it emphasizes that Odysseus is having to face his worst fear again.]]> 2019-01-30 20:47:57 UTC https://padlet.com/plevitt1/7non6msl26bf/wish/326041158