The tantalizing idea of love and intimacy permeates the minds of people all over the world. Nonetheless, the theme of love appears periodically in Susan Vega's song "Calypso" and The Odyssey. Throughout Calypso's song, she articulates her feelings, about letting Odysseus go, into words. Calypso's aura possesses a recherche nature, and her pulchritudinous circumstantiate the reasons why she is a goddess. Moreover, one day she descries a hero asphyxiating in the sea and resuscitates him. Calypso schlepps Odysseus back her island of Ogyia; nevertheless, she extemporaneously falls deeply in love with him. When Calypso gauges his beauty, brains, and brawn, she enunciates that she will never let him go. Nevertheless, when everything was going
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In both The Odyssey and "Calypso", the authors disclose their messages and characterization of the main protagonists to the reader officiously. For example, in Homer's The Odyssey, Calypso struggled with setting Odysseus free. Furthermore, Calypso felt excruciating lachrymose when letting go of him; however, when faced with the action, the execution was done with eloquence. The truth was that Odysseus clandestinely desired to leave a long time ago, but Calypso never let him go. Why would Odysseus want to pass up such an enthralling opportunity to be espoused to an immortal goddess? Or even become a god? He pined to go home, to his island of Ithaca, to live with his family, and to continue to be the king. Odysseus and Calypso continued to have conflicting and bewildering feelings; she longed for him to stay but he wished to voyage home. The song asserts the truth about what had occurred in the poem, "A long time ago I watched him struggle with the sea," (Vega 1). She watched him inundated and then revived his life, just like in The Odyssey where he was drowning and she saved him. In the end, the poems end with Odysseus setting off to the sea and continuing the many journeys that Poseidon was planning to set for him. As for the song, "I let him go, I let him go," shows Calypso's disheartening tone as she let's her company
In both The Odyssey and "Calypso", the authors disclose their messages and characterization of the main protagonists to the reader officiously. For example, in Homer's The Odyssey, Calypso struggled with setting Odysseus free. Furthermore, Calypso felt excruciating lachrymose when letting go of him; however, when faced with the action, the execution was done with eloquence. The truth was that Odysseus clandestinely desired to leave a long time ago, but Calypso never let him go. Why would Odysseus want to pass up such an enthralling opportunity to be espoused to an immortal goddess? Or even become a god? He pined to go home, to his island of Ithaca, to live with his family, and to continue to be the king. Odysseus and Calypso continued to have conflicting and bewildering feelings; she longed for him to stay but he wished to voyage home. The song asserts the truth about what had occurred in the poem, "A long time ago I watched him struggle with the sea," (Vega 1). She watched him inundated and then revived his life, just like in The Odyssey where he was drowning and she saved him. In the end, the poems end with Odysseus setting off to the sea and continuing the many journeys that Poseidon was planning to set for him. As for the song, "I let him go, I let him go," shows Calypso's disheartening tone as she let's her company