Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Odyssey

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

- The Odyssey, Page 216 Line 190

Throughout this novel this line is repeated over and over. Why? I believe it is because Dawn represents rebirth, the "dawning" of a new time. By using this in the Odyssey Homer is almost starting a new chapter within a chapter - he is stating a beginning. Dawning, the beginning, it all comes back to that. To see Dawn is to start a new day, to begin fresh - to start over. Odysseus is trying to start over, trying to erase the years of absence, and everytime he sees the Dawn he begins anew.
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