Interpretive Questions from "The Odyssey"

Homer, The Odyssey, Book 1

Question One:

Who is the narrator in this story?

References:

1. smatter to me of the homosexual, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the h all(prenominal)owed heights of Troy (Page 77, Lines 1 - 3).

2. By now, all the survivors, all who avoided the headlong death were pencil eraser at home, escaped the wars and waves (Page 77, Lines 13 - 15).

Com workforcets:

Is the narrator a idol - some wise, all-knowing power or entity that watches over all men? Though, I wouldnt think that this would be the case, because on page 78, lines 21 - 24, the narrator speaks about gods and how every god took clemency except Poseidon. The narrator comes across (to me) as if he is non one of the gods, but an onlooker of some sort - mayhap a historian?

Question Two:

Who is the narrator speaking to or about?

References:

1. But one man alone... his heart frame on his wife and his return - Calypso. The bewitching nymph, the lustrous goddess, held him covering (Page 78, Line 16 - 20).

2.



But then, when the wheeling seasons brought the twelvemonth around, that year spun out by the gods when he should reach his home, Ithaca - though not even there would he be free of trials...(Page 77, Lines 19 -21).

Comments:

Who is being held back by Calypso? Is this a tommyrot about one man alone as it says, or is this something more evasive - more generic, such as man in general or society - married men held back by lust towards another woman? Man, lacking something that is inaccessible rather than focusing on what is at read? If I had to answer my own question...

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