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-Page 162, Book 5: Lines 360-361

-Relation: Odysseus' ship in the storm of Poseidon at sea, to a thistle/weed in the wind

-Page 167, Book 5: Lines 540-545

-Relation: Someone snuffing out their red hot poker in ashes, to Odysseus finally falling asleep under the power of the Goddess Athena

-Page 175, Book 6: Lines 255-260

-Relation: The Goddess Athena and her blessing over Odysseus, to a master craftsman and his work

Twenty Years to Get Home?

Odysseus' Secret
by Stephen Dunn

At first he thought only of home, and Penelope.
But after a few years, like anyone on his own,
he couldn't separate what he'd chosen
from what had chosen him.
Calypso, the Lotus-eaters, Circe;
a man could forget where he lived.
he had a gift for getting in and out of trouble,
a prodigious, human gift. To survive Cyclops
and withstand the Sirens' song --
just those words survive, withstand,
in his mind became a music
he moved to and lived by.
How could govern, even love, compete?
They belonged to a different part of a man,
the untested part, which never had transcended dread,
or the liar part, which always spoke like a citizen.
The larger the man, though,
the more he needed to be reminded
he was a man. Lightning, high winds,
for every excess a punishment.
Penelope was dear to him,
full of character and fine in bed.
But by the middle years this other life
had become his life. That was Odysseus' secret
kept even from himself. When he talked about return
he thought he meant what he said.
Twenty years to get home?
A man finds his shipwrecks,
tells himself the necessary stories.
Whatever gods are -- our own fearful voices
or intimations from the unseen order
of things, the gods finally released him,
cleared the way.
Odysseus boarded that Phaecian ship, suddenly tired
of the road's dangerous enchantments,
and sailed through storm and wild sea
as if his beloved were all that ever mattered.

Personification

(Eos, or the Goddess of Dawn)

This is our list!

Book 1:

Book 2: Lines 1-2, 428,

1-2: "When young Dawn with her rose-red fingers shone once more..."

428: "The sun sank and the roads of the world grew dark."

Book 3: Lines 1-2, 376, 414, 550-551, 553

1-2: "As the sun sprang up, leaving the brilliant waters in its wake climbing the bronze sky to shower light on immortal gods."

376: "High time- the light;s already sunk in the western shadows."

414: "... trained to race the wind."

550: "When young Dawn with her rose-red fingers shone once more they yoked their pair again, mounted the blazoned car and out through the gates..."

Book 4: Lines 343-344,

343: "When young Dawn with her rose-red fingers shone once more the lord of the warcry climbed from bed and dressed..."

Book 5: Lines 1, 134, 252, 431

1: "As Dawn rose up from bed by her lordly mate Tithonus..."

134: "So when Dawn with her rose-red fingers took Orion..."

252: "When young Dawn with her rose-red fingers shone once more..."

431: "Then when Dawn with her lovely locks brought on the third day..."

Book 6:

Book 7: Lines 98

98: "A radiance strong as the moon or rising sun came flooding through the high-roofed halls of generous King Alcinous."

"Odyssey" Songs

The Train Song- Feist and Ben Gibbard

Calypso- Suzanne Vega

Home at Last- Steely Dan

The Journey Home- Sarah Brightman

The Odyssey- Symphony X

I Need a Hero- Jennifer Saunders

Homeward Bound- Maita Keen

Home By the Sea- Genesis

Homeward Bound- Paul Simon

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For- U2

Nostalgia

Book 1: lines 4-6 page 77 Many cities he saw and lerned their minds many pains he sufferd, heartsick on the open sea, fighting to save his life and bring his comrades home.

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Book 7:

Xenia

-p. 81 Book 1 Lines 144-146

-p. 87 Book 1 Lines 354-361

-p. 109 Book 3 Lines 57-60

-p. 118 Book 3 Lines 395-398

-p. 125 Book 4 Lines 38-42

-p. 126 Book 4 Lines 56-72

-p. 133-134 Book 4 Lines 332-340

-p. 155 Book 5 Lines 103-106

-p. 175 Book 6 Lines 229-232

-p. 185 Book 7 Lines 199-215

Descriptions of Odysseus

Pg 77-Line 1: The man of twists and turns (full first paragraph)

Pg 79-Lines 79-80: Great odysseus who excels all men in wisdom, excels in offerings too

Pg 84-Lines 241-242: The head and fine eyes

Pg 85-Lines 295-296: Oh how much you need odysseus, gone so long-how he'd lay hands on those brazen suitors!

Pg 94-Lines 49-51: Noble father who ruled among you years ago, each of you here, as kindly as a father to his own children

Pg 95-Line 63: We have no man like Odysseus

Pg 95-Line 76: Noble father Odysseus

Pg 111-Line 136: At every twist of strategy he excelled us all

Pg 112-Line 181: Flexible, willy king