This is an essay that has to be a leats 100 words

who are the lotus-eaters? what character traits do odysseus and his men demonstrate upon meeting them? your answer should be at least 100 words.

Odysseus will take an oar and travel to a place where they have never seen water and make an offering to Poseidon (a ram, bull, great buck boar, and pure hecatombs - slaughter of 100 cattle or more at one time) and then he will grow old and live happily with his family. Odysseus told him that he is with Agamemnon and says that they are with "peace" and just need hospitality

hello,

your answer is a) the metaphor suggests that the poetic themes are serious and dark.

collins is comparing the poem to a dark room. he is suggesting that the poems theme is serious and wants you to understand it. you don't need to understand the poet in order to understand the poem. you also don't need to move around while reading it. he is simply saying the poem has a dark and serious theme.

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