description of his surroundings. The simile use puts a twist on phrases that are expected to fit the usual “romantic" themes of poems. "When the evening is spread out against the sky‚ like a patient etherized upon a table” (Line 1-2). This shows how Alfred Prufrock views the sky as lifeless in such a bleak city. It’s questionable as to why he is roaming the streets of such an environment (cheap-hotels‚ half-deserted streets‚ and sawdust restaurants)‚ after the day has ended and the streets become empty. When
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Thomas C. Foster) Notes Introduction Archetypes: Faustian deal with the devil (i.e. trade soul for something he/she wants) Spring (i.e. youth‚ promise‚ rebirth‚ renewal‚ fertility) Comedic traits: tragic downfall is threatened but avoided hero wrestles with his/her own demons and comes out victorious What do I look for in literature? - A set of patterns - Interpretive options (readers draw their own conclusions but must be able to support it) - Details ALL
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Review: The Odyssey by Homer Written by a blind man‚ Melesigenes better known as Homer‚ and translated by Alexander Pope‚ the Odyssey of Homer is a poem about the life of the king of Ithaca‚ Ulysses‚ who leaves to fight in the Trojan War‚ but he doesn’t return until 20 years. According to Professor P. Landow‚ Ulysses is a great athlete and great warrior‚ heroic‚ courageous‚ eloquent‚ and masterful‚ and at the same time‚ he I pious (Landow). In those twenty years trying to get back home‚ he goes through
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Joseph Campbell describes the 17 stages that occur during a hero’s journey‚ also known as Monomyth. The Odyssey by Homer is a story based on Ulysses and his journey‚ I will be describing the stages of Monomyth based on Campbell’s ideas. These stages will focus on Ulysses and his son Telemachus. According to Joseph Campbell‚ a hero’s journey normally entails three phases; the departure‚ the initiation‚ and the return. (Wikipedia) The first phase is the departure phase‚ which consists of three
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was unable to make any correlation between that and The Odyssey‚ but as it progressed I soon was able to follow the plot and match creatures to their ancient Greek counterparts. As Odysseus encountered many monsters‚ mystical creatures‚ and gods‚ Ulysses (the main Odysseus like character in O Bother Where Art Thou) had many of his own encounters with Odyssey like creatures. While O Bother Where Art Thou is based on The Odyssey they still have there similarities and differences in the way the various
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Greco-Roman culture often as a means of putting together words in a certain order to persuade or inform your audience of a specific idea. The two stories regarding the discussion between Ajax and Ulysses over Achilles armor exemplifies the idea of rhetoric. Ovid uses the episodes of Ajax and Ulysses in book thirteen f the Metamorphoses to illustrate to the readers the art of rhetoric. Ovid draws upon previous texts covered in class such as Homer’s Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid to form some of his
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The poets use the legend of Ulysses as the background of the poems. The rhyming schemes are very obvious in the poems and they create fluent to the reader. The poets use allusions and style differently but they use the style to reveal the theme. Although ¡§An Ancient Gesture¡¨ and ¡§The Sirens¡¨ allude to the story of Ulysses‚ Edna St. Vincent Millay and Donald Finkel use allusion differently. ¡§An Ancient Gesture¡¨ was alluding to the story between Penelope and Ulysses. The poet compared herself
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Homer. The Odyssey describes the adventurous‚ but dangerous return of Odysseus and his crew to Ithaca from the Trojan War. O Brother‚ Where Art Thou describes Ulysses’ escape from jail with his two buddies Pete and Delmar‚ and their attempt to escape back to freedom without being noticed. Both works show the struggles Odysseus and Ulysses face as they and their sidekicks return to home and freedom. The Odyssey is a long series of books detailed by Homer of Odysseus’ return. Odysseus is wise‚ brave
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trying to get home. Although Odysseus from Homer’s poem and Ulysses from the Coen brothers’ film essentially follow the same journey‚ the way they are portrayed along this journey causes the audience to have divergent opinions about each hero. Fundamentally shaping the audience’s attitudes toward each hero‚ Odysseus is portrayed in a much more positive light than Ulysses is. While Odysseus possesses both good and bad characteristics‚ Ulysses seems to mirror primarily the bad ones. Odysseus shows his
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vary in tone from prudish to lecherous. At different moments the tone can range from brashness to diffidence‚ from praise to scathing criticism. His range of tones evokes a spectrum of moods from mirth to despondency. In ’Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’‚ Eliot mourns the loss of chance‚ sobbing in existentialist despair‚ and lamenting of passive indecision and inaction. In the opening lines‚ he assertively orders ’let us go then you and I/ When the evening is spread out against the sky’ and following
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