The Land Of The Cyclops In Homer's Odyssey

The Land Of The Cyclops

In The Odyssey by Homer, edited by Fitzgerald, Odysseus and his shipmates are trying to make it back to their homeland, Ithaca. In Book 9, ‘’The Land of The Cyclops’’ edited by Fitzgerald, he comes forth to a giant cyclops, Polyphemus. This event alters Odysseus’s journey back home and causes many catastrophes upon him and his crew. Next, in the ‘’The Blinding of Polyphemus” by Robert Dickerson, Odysseus’s moments on the Cyclops Island are outlined. The poem highlights how Polyphemus lost his eye due to Odysseus and his men trying to escape out of his cave before he ate them. A visual ‘’The Cyclops Polyphemus blinded by Odysseus and his men’’ displays an image of how Polyphemus getting blinded went down. A good way

Odysseus comes up with a plan to try and escape the Island and this sets a suspenseful, gory tone. “ He dismembered them and made his meal, gaping and crunching like a mountain lion-everything innards, flesh, and marrow bones.” (Fitzgerald 287-289) Polyphemus is brutally eating Odysseus men without a care right in front of them and this begins to anger Odysseus and take action quickly before him and the rest of his crew are gone. He comes up with a plan to escape by offering Polyphemus some wine. “Cyclops,try some wine. Here’s liquor to wash down your scraps of men.”(Fitzgerald 348-349). This was the best opportunity for Odysseus. Once Polyphemus had fallen asleep from the wine it led him take his final chance to get him and his men out of that

It shows Odysseus and his crew holding a giant pitchfork near the giant’s eye getting ready to stab Polyphemus the cave is dark and creepy with only a fire pit providing light setting a gloomy tone. “the one sole eye of Polyphemus shone/wicked ,hippic/ and dilated with the drink it had absorbed-/hooded,half, in drowsy-drunken slumber.”(Dickerson 5-8). Polyphemus is laying down sleeping from the wine Odysseus had given him, as they stand above him preparing to drive the giant object into Polyphemus eye. The sheep are also shown in the image, “The Cyclops’ rams were handsome,fat, with heavy/fleeces, a dark violet.”(Fitzgerald 434-435). They were used for them all to escape the cave without Polyphemus knowing that it was them. The men eventually break free and make their way back to shore. In conclusion the men make it free and the tone is now set at like a