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Examples Of Similes In The Odyssey

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In book 21 Penelope announces that she will marry the suiter who can string the bow, and then successfully shoot a line of twelve axes. Telemachus, Eurymachus, and many more try to string the bow and fail. Odysseus then asks to try, and this is where the epic simile is. The simile compared Odysseus’s stringing to a musician with an instrument. Thus reveling that Odysseus was in fact was very graceful, and skillful. He was able to make music, so naturally with his effortless motions of stringing the bow. Odysseus was as skilled as a great musician playing their instrument, as he was to string the bow. Odysseus up until this point thrived on the image of masculinity, but the simile revels a much softer, gentler, and soothing side of Odysseus.
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