Lines 1-11 Odysseus, the considerable storyteller, jump started out on his story:"Alcinous, greatness, sparkling among your island individuals, what a fine thing it is to tune in to such a versifier as we have here, the man sings like a divine being. “The crown of life, I'd say.”( Line 5). There's nothing superior to anything when profound bliss holds influence all through the domain and banqueters all over the castle sit in positions, excited to hear the poet, and before them every one of, the tables stacked with bread and meats, and drawing wine from a blending dish the steward makes his rounds and keeps the winecups streaming. This, to my psyche, is as well as can be expected offer. Lines 12-32 Be that as it may, now you're resolved to …show more content…
Long as morning rose and the favored day developed more grounded we stood and fended them off, massed as they were, yet at that point, when the sun wheeled past the hour for unyoking bulls, the Cicones broke our lines and beat us down finally. Out of each ship, six men-at-arms were slaughtered; whatever remains of us paddled far from certain fate. From that point we cruised on, happy to get away from our demise yet wiped out on the most fundamental level for the dear colleagues we had lost. In any case, I would not give our moving boats a chance to set sail until the point when the teams had raised the triple cry, saluting every poor friend chop around the furious Cicones on that plain. Presently Zeus who masses the stormclouds hit the armada with the North Wind a yelling, satanic storm, covering over in thunderheads the earth and ocean on the double what's more, night cleared down from the sky and the boats went diving fast on, our sails sliced to clothes by the sea tempest's impact! We struck them recoiling at death we paddled our boats to the closest shoreline, pulled with all our energy. There, for two evenings, two days, we lay by, no interval, eating our hearts out, twisted with torment and bone-tired. At the point when Dawn with her stunning locks expedited the third day, at that point venturing the poles and raising white sails high, we relaxed at the oarlocks, giving wing and helmsman a chance to keep us valid on