https://padlet.com/bpitts3/f06jkueyb6xa en-us 2018-01-31 15:00:56 UTC 2025-11-19 16:41:19 UTC hello@padlet.com srixford https://padlet.com/bpitts3/f06jkueyb6xa/wish/226595700 There are many powerful examples of imagery. For instance, "Letting slip through her fingers year after year, the colors of the season." (Marks 27). You can visualize the time passing as Odysseus is gone]]> 2018-01-31 15:04:21 UTC https://padlet.com/bpitts3/f06jkueyb6xa/wish/226595700 kpraveen1 https://padlet.com/bpitts3/f06jkueyb6xa/wish/226595732 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?


]]> 2018-01-31 15:04:24 UTC https://padlet.com/bpitts3/f06jkueyb6xa/wish/226595732 bpitts3 https://padlet.com/bpitts3/f06jkueyb6xa/wish/226596325 In this poem, there are many examples of assonance. An example of assonance is when the poem says, "For what they cannot claim or reclaim". The sentence repeats the "a" sound. ]]> 2018-01-31 15:05:16 UTC https://padlet.com/bpitts3/f06jkueyb6xa/wish/226596325 kpraveen1 https://padlet.com/bpitts3/f06jkueyb6xa/wish/226596883 The poems tone toward the subject would be sorrow and or longing towards Penelope, who Odysseus is talking about. ]]> 2018-01-31 15:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bpitts3/f06jkueyb6xa/wish/226596883 mmilosavljevic https://padlet.com/bpitts3/f06jkueyb6xa/wish/226597916 In the poem, there is multiple different uses of metaphorical language in describing feelings and Penelope. An example of one of these is, "In my dreams I become your loom, you unravel and ravel my hopes."  This metaphor shows how Penelope is always in Odysseus' mind, always making him yearn for her. ]]> 2018-01-31 15:07:42 UTC https://padlet.com/bpitts3/f06jkueyb6xa/wish/226597916 srixford https://padlet.com/bpitts3/f06jkueyb6xa/wish/226598049 The viewpoint of this poem is from Odysseus, which is the same as in the Odyssey. This mainly emphasizes how Odysseus is lonely and misses Penelope. It doesn't include getting back to his home, Telemachus his son, or anything else. ]]> 2018-01-31 15:07:54 UTC https://padlet.com/bpitts3/f06jkueyb6xa/wish/226598049 bpitts3 https://padlet.com/bpitts3/f06jkueyb6xa/wish/226599125 One of the central themes for this poem is that time can change people and make you doubt if people are the same. The line, "Are you the Penelope I knew or have you too forgotten..." conveys this theme.]]> 2018-01-31 15:09:34 UTC https://padlet.com/bpitts3/f06jkueyb6xa/wish/226599125