Thus he chided with his heart, and checked it into endurance, but he tossed about as one who turns a paunch full of blood and fat in front of a hot fire, doing it first on one side and then on the other, that he may get it cooked as soon as possible, even so did he turn hi...
Penelope presently reached the oak threshold of the store-room; the carpenter had planed this duly, and had drawn a line on it so as to get it quite straight; he had then set the door posts into it and hung the doors. She loosed the strap from the handle of the door, put in the...
TheOdysseybyHomer:SummaryBook请注意甄别内容中的联系方式诱导购买等信息谨防诈骗 TheOdysseybyHomer:SummaryBook Book 1The first book informs the reader of the imprisonment of Odysseus on Calypso's island, Ogygia, in the tenth year after the Trojan War. It also describes the insolence of the young ...
The Odyssey, Book 1Homer
But my heart can sense the way it all will go. Odysseus, I tell you, is never coming back 在令人忧心忡忡的环境中,在周围人都众口一致的时候,如果Penelope“一厢情愿”地相信,那反而有些奇怪,别人是不是会嘲笑她“因思念丈夫而精神错乱”呢?Penelope面对了现实,心里的思恋还是挥之不去,日有所思,夜...
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The article discusses the damage that could be done by incorporating cell phones into novel writing. The author gives several examples of dramatic irony: "Wuthering Heights," "The Odyssey," and "Anna Karenina." The tension within a novel is heightened when characters cannot locate other characters...
1 Far backward runs the story, should I tell of the anxious husbandman of hidden war, sowing battles in the unhallowed soil, and searching to the uttermost, relate with what song Amphion bade the Tyrian mountains move to form a city’s walls, whence came Bacchus’ grievous wrath against ...
Like the arming scenes of the Iliad, there is an allusion to performance in the Odyssey when Odysseus, disguised as the beggar, must "control himself " (17:305) despite the insults and objects thrown at him. Odysseus' ability to dupe the suitors hinges not only on his own performance, ...
When his body and armour had been burned to ashes, we raised a cairn, set a stone over it, and at the top of the cairn we fixed the oar that he had been used to row with. “While we were doing all this, Circe, who knew that we had got back from the house of Hades, dressed...