The Role Of Dawn In Homer's Odyssey

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"When dawn spread out her fingertips of rose, the rams began to stir, moving for pasture." Dawn is a time of day, it doesn't have fingertips therefore we have an example of personification. I think this gives us a visual of the time of day when the day begins slowly but reaches across the lands like a hand. "Death sat there huge." In this example death cannot sit, it is clearly not a live person. This image implies that death is patiently waiting, and it a number one thought of the hero. This lets the readers understand what Odysseus is going through and what he is wanting to resort

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