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#not even like. reignite or flare up or w/e. Odysseus is not a bushfire here. here‚ he is on the brink of being extinguished
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thing I am normal abt #1: the simile Homer chose to describe Odysseus at the end of the 5th rhapsody of the Odyssey
(translation by Emily Wilson)
#Odysseus
#The Odyssey
#Homer
#Emily Wilson
#quotations
#epics
#poetry
#characters
#ceci je l'ai fait
#listen. for all Odysseus's bravado & confidence & talent‚ he is not ultimately compared to a tidal wave or a cyclone or a storm
#his persistence is not the persistence of the Iliad! this is the epic of timeworn embraceable life remember!
#he is embers. the flame of his life has been beaten back & doused to mere embers
#& it's all he can do to make sure he doesn't go out
#not even like. reignite or flare up or w/e. Odysseus is not a bushfire here. here‚ he is on the brink of being extinguished
#which is of course never an option
#of course he thinks of nothing but clinging to life. of course he does
#ALSO. CLINGING TO LIFE IN A BED FOR TWO MADE BY HIS OWN HANDS. UNDER OLIVE TREES
#this is not lost on me
#also ridiculously cute image in the sentence after he piles up his lil leaf bed
#'Seeing this‚ the hero who had suffered for so long was happy.'
#picture book ass sentence
#but also. POIGNANT. HHHHH
#bc he is a hero of epic!! & he has suffered!!! for so very long!!!!
#it's ongoing! everyone else got to go home after the war. not him!!
#the image of this grizzled grimy war hero beaten to shit half drowned naked freezing & on the brink of passing out
#making a little den of leaves & going :) at it. god......... this POEM
#TIMEWORN EMBRACEABLE LIFE INDEED!! thenks John Miles Foley for my life
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