Theme Of Regret In The Odyssey

The Odyssey and the poem about regret have similar and different views and meanings of regret. The Odyssey is a story about a man named Odysseus and him on a journey on the way home. This story is called an epic poem in literature. The poem is about someone who is regretting not spending time with a deceased friend but in the end realizes that it is ok because he knows that he will see him again when he passes away.

Odysseus on his journey home has some feelings of regret. When Odysseus is talking to the king about his journey he says “... I have been detained long by Calypso, loveliest among goddesses, who held me in her smooth caves, to be her heart’s delight”( line 18). Odysseus probably feels regret right here, because essentially he is sleeping with a woman that was not his wife for eight years and she claims that he is her lover. He probably feels that when he goes home and

First the Odyssey says, “... I have been detained long by Calypso, loveliest among goddesses, who held me in her smooth caves, to be her heart’s delight” ( line 18). He is feeling regret for sleeping with another woman. This differs from the poem because in the poem he is regretting not being there for someone. The poet says, “Is it, then, regret for buried time that keenlier in sweet April wakes and meets the year, and gives and takes the colours of the crescent prime”, in The Odyssey, Odysseus has been on a journey for more than ten years and hasn’t been there for his wife or son so he is probably also feeling regret for that. Both end well though in the poem he says, “ Yet less sorrow lives in me for days of happy commune dead; less yearning for the friendship fled, than some strong bond which is to be. This is saying how the man is not as sad and regretful now because he knows that when he dies he will see his friend again. In The Odyssey he has been gone so since he knows he is on his way home he to will be very