Calypso

A renowned writer, poet, dancer, singer, actor, friend, and Civil Rights activist, Maya Angelou was a prominent and undoubtedly successful figure throughout the second half of the twentieth century. With many successes throughout her lifetime, Angelou is known for her poem I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings as well as her contributions to the Civil Rights movement. However, many events and people contributed to Angelou’s works and art style. Commonly labeled as a “Renaissance Woman,” Maya Angelou…

Heaven Walters MUS 110 Drew Hays 10 April 15 Album Analysis: Saxophone Colossus According to the Webster Dictionary, Colossus is defined as something that is gigantic or immense, which is also accurate when describing Sonny Rollins’ contributions to the jazz world. Sonny Rollins, himself, was knowns as the “Saxophone Colossus” back in 1956, and has been compared to Coleman Hawkins with his strong, intense notes combined with lyrical freedom and genius. Saxophone Colossus, recorded in June of…

The Tumultuous Nature of Home The characters of both Homer’s epic poem and Sophocles’ tragedies are trying to establish or return to the safety of their homes. They are searching and yearning for the safety, stability, and comfort that are expected at one’s own home. However, the home often disappoints in these regards, and is regularly the setting for extreme trauma and violence instead. By first establishing the expectation that safety and comfort can be achieved only within one’s home, and…

storm that wrecks all his ships, he finally arrives home two decades since his departure, and he finds suitors eating up his estate. However, Odysseus does not make the same mistake on Calypso’s island several years later. When the gods demand that Calypso may no longer keep him any longer. The goddess makes one final plea to persuade Odysseus to stay. She calls his wife “inferior in looks or figure” compared to “a goddess in form and face” (68). But Odysseus replies modestly this time,…

To begin with, when the nymph, Calypso, went to tell Odysseus that he could leave, she “found him there on the headland, sitting still,/ weeping, his eyes never dry, his sweet life flowing away/ with the tears wept for his foiled journey home…” (5.167-169) The human weakness that is shown…

Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1928, Maya Angelou was an author, poet, historian, civil rights activist, and much more. According to continuing the life work of Maya Angelou, she was well known for her many works which were varied anywhere from poems, books, children’s books, and even cook books. At the age of about 22 years old, she started to work on what would come to be one of her most important projects known as “I know why the caged bird sings.” Although Angelou was a woman with many…

Find a penny pick it up, all day long you 'll have good luck. Epic heroes manage to escape impossible challenges and defeat terrifying monsters. Odysseus from Homer 's epic poem, The Odyssey, manages to make a difficult journey home with the help of the Goddess Athena. The Gods have a lot to do with his challenges and his successes. Throughout the story several Gods and Goddess interact with the might hero. Odysseus 's journey raises the question, did he reach his might quest through his bravery…

Living in the 21st century do you believe that the theory of mean, as said in the past, is still an ethical way of living? One may think that too much or too little of something is bad therefore, many agree that being mediocre is the way to live a content life. Now if we consider the life the political community lived by when Aristotle developed this theory, most of them questioned themselves in the attempt to see if they were living life the “right” way. The mean of extremes is a nice/calm way…

Eumaeus, the swineherd of Odysseus, is an important character that Homer depicts within the poem of The Odyssey, and one very interesting aspect of this character is his characterization of loyalty. Homer establishes loyalty as a strong and vital characteristic of Eumaeus through the passage in Book Fourteen in which the swineherd is introduced into the poem, approximately from lines 40 through 85. This portrayal of the theme of loyalty through the character of Eumaeus is a crucial aspect of The…

Trust is something so valuable in a relationship, platonic or romantic, that it can later show who someone is as a person, and their reputation. During the epic, The Odyssey by Homer, Odysseus builds as a character and the reader can see the leader’s courageous a side, but also the selfish side of him. Along the way to Ithaca, Odysseus acquires a bag of winds as a gift from Aeolus, God of the winds. This bag creates a debacle during their trip home. Odysseus’s crew opens the bag of winds without…