Grade 9: Unit 5

Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending,
the wanderer, harried for years on end,
after he plundered the stronghold
on the proud height of Troy.

Sheep after sheep
they butchered by the surf, and shambling cattle,
feasting,—while fugitives went inland, running
to call to arms the main force of Cicones.

We would entreat you, great Sir, have a care
for the gods’ courtesy; Zeus will avenge
the unoffending guest.

Then,
his chores being all dispatched, he caught
another brace of men to make his breakfast,
and whisked away his great door slab
to let his sheep go through—but he, behind,
reset the stone as one would cap a quiver.

Now came the time to toss for it: who ventured
along with me? whose hand could bear to thrust
and grind that spike in Cyclops’ eye, when mild
sleep had mastered him?

I drew on all my wits, and ran through tactics,
reasoning as a man will for dear life,
until a trick came—and it pleased me well.

From the air
she walked, taking the form of a tall woman,
handsome and clever at her craft, and stood
beyond the gate in plain sight of Odysseus,
unseen, though, by Telemachus, unguessed,
for not to everyone will gods appear.

Son of Laertes and the gods of old,
Odysseus, master of landways and seaways,
dissemble to your son no longer now.

Only Telemachus,
uncomprehending, wild
with incredulity cried out:
“You cannot
be my father Odysseus!...."

Pallas Athena
and Zeus All-Provident will see you through,
bemusing our young friends.

You know they go in foreign guise, the gods do,
looking like strangers, turning up
in towns and settlements to keep an eye
on manners, good or bad.

So every day I wove on the great loom,
but every night by torchlight I unwove it;
and so for three years I deceived the Achaeans.

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He remembered that, even before the Mau Mau emergency, the overfilled Gikuyu holdings wore haggard looks in contrast to the sprawling green fields in the settled area.

Honia, where so often he had taken a bath, plunging stark naked into its cool living water, warmed his heart as he watched its serpentine movement around the rocks and heard its slight murmurs.

The new village was before him—rows and rows of compact mud huts, crouching on the plain under the fast-vanishing sun.

But the structure and something of the spiritual sense of this adventure can be seen already anticipated in the puberty or initiation rituals of early tribal societies, through which a child is compelled to give up its childhood and become an adult—to die, you might say, to its infantile personality and psyche and come back as a responsible adult.

But the structure and something of the spiritual sense of this adventure can be seen already anticipated in the puberty or initiation rituals of early tribal societies, through which a child is compelled to give up its childhood and become an adult—to die, you might say, to its infantile personality and psyche and come back as a responsible adult.

We are in childhood in a condition of dependency under someone's protection and supervision for some fourteen to twenty-one years—and if you're going on for your Ph.D., this may continue to perhaps thirty-five.

It is in the small things we see it.
The child's first step,
as awesome as an earthquake.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.

The sun and the moon are eternal voyagers; the years that come and go are travelers too.