Tuesday, December 11, 2012

The Odyssey Debrief


12,109 lines of hexameter verse later, you have made it to the end of The Odyssey.

In one paragraph, please answer the following questions: How has the reading of it been your own personal odyssey?  How did you get through it?  What methods did you employ to make the reading of this long poem bearable?

In a second paragraph, please discuss your critical evaluation of the poem: 
Were you satisfied with the poem’s ending and the poem as a whole?  This is where you get the opportunity to say how much you loved it or hated it.  What would you have changed, if anything?  What parts captivated you?  What bored you?  How has reading it changed your life? J