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    The Odyssey and Ulysses

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    The Odysseus we know from the epic poem The Odyssey is very different emotionally than the same character described by Alfred Lord Tennyson (under a different name) in his poem Ulysses. Tennyson’s Ulysses is melancholy about the state of his home and wishes to return to the open sea‚ while Homer’s Odysseus is happy to return home after twenty long years on the seas. Tennyson’s Ulysses describes "how dull it is to pause‚ to make an end" and how he wishes for excitement‚ adventure‚ and "new things

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    Polyphemus In The Odyssey

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    In the story of the Odyssey‚ Polyphemus is a cyclops that has one eye on his forehead that is blinded because of Odysseus. Odysseus is the king of his home‚ Ithaca‚ that is on a journey to get back to Ithaca with his crew after they fought in a war. He has faced many challenges on this journey that caused his character to be less desirable. Also he has lots of hair like most of the other cyclops do too‚ and really tall. His personality is he is not very smart‚ greedy‚ and loves to eat human flesh

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    eye looks out from an inch-wide hole stamped out of a piece of unusually corrugated cardboard on the cover of a book. The book is the special issue of the journal Film Culture published in 1963. It is we are looking at‚ and is looking at us. In Metaphors on Vision‚ Brakhage (1963) claims that there is an original perspective of an eye. From Brakhage’s perspective‚ it is his eye that peers through the hole. It is his eye we are invited to see through. For many of his audiences in the years since the

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    philosophers to realize his theory. Immanuel Kant held that there were certain instances we could have synthetic a priory rather than strictly posteriori. Andreicut offers a nice metaphor that for Kant‚ we perceive the world as if we’re wearing blue-tinted glasses‚ and so perceive the world to be bluish. In Andreicut metaphor for Kant perspective the blue-tinted glasses present one of the categories in our mind that allow us to interpret the sense of data or the phenomena in such constructed way that

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    Immortality In The Odyssey

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    Hall is named after‚ who David O. McKay was‚ or better yet how Dante Alighieri helped to save the Italian Language. In Homer’s The Odyssey‚ the hero Odysseus seemed to understand that immortality was not all it was made out to be. When given the opportunity to live forever among the gods with the minor goddess Calypso‚ Odysseus chooses instead to live out the rest of his life as a mortal with his wife and son. He chooses to return to a life of trial and hardship than live forever. Unlike Achilles

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    Xenia in the Odyssey

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    set by Xenia‚ there would be severe penalties dealt by Zeus and also by society (Wikipedia). In The Odyssey‚ Xenia is a theme which is shown repeatedly throughout the book: Nestor and Menelaos take in Telemakhos warmly as a guest and Eumaios plays an excellent host to Odysseus‚ while Odysseus is disguised as a wandering beggar. It is no accident that Xenia is such an important theme in The Odyssey‚ as it helps Homer present which characters he wanted to be “good.” Of course‚ the same can be said

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    In the Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln it is about him trying to say sorry about how the people died and is talking about it in 3 different ways. It is about the past‚ present and then the future it is 271 words long and only in three paragraphs written in Pennsylvania. Based on the union of the battle and the southern. All together 51‚000 troops died‚ union 23‚000 union troops die and then 28‚000 southern troops die. This letter is talking an apology and explanation of their deaths to their

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    Robert Frost Metaphors

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    thought has found words.”(Robert Frost). Robert Frost became one of the most famous poets of his time and still is today. In one of his more popular pieces‚ The Road Not Taken‚ Frost uses imagery‚ tone‚ and metaphors to convey that by making certain decisions will affect you for the rest of your life. Robert Frost was born on March 26‚ 1874 in San Francisco‚ California. His interest in poetry began in high school and then escalated while attending Dartmouth and Harvard colleges. Although he never earned

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    Literary Term #9 Metaphor: A type of figurative language in which a statement is made that says that one thing is something else but‚ literally‚ it is not. In connecting one object‚ event‚ or place‚ to another‚ a metaphor can uncover new and intriguing qualities of the original thing that we may not normally notice or even consider important. Metaphoric language is used in order to realize a new and different meaning. As an effect‚ a metaphor functions primarily to increase stylistic colorfulness

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    heroes in Greek mythology‚ Achilles‚ who was thought to be invincible‚ was shot in the back of his left heel. This later killed‚ him revealing everyone has weaknesses‚ no matter how strong they are. This is what society most remembers him for‚ showing that weaknesses also make you the person you are. In this epic‚ The Odyssey by Homer‚ we see a hero named Odysseus overcome challenges‚ but also fall to his weaknesses. Odysseus’ strengths come from his overwhelming perseverance to return home‚ but with

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