In this excerpt, Odysseus is compared to a Albel
whirlpool.
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Read the excerpt from Part 4 of The Odyssey.
There, as the whirlpool drank the tide, a billow
tossed me, and I sprang for the great fig tree,
catching on like a bat under a bough.
Nowhere had I to stand, no way of climbing,
the root and bole being far below, and far
above my head the branches and their leaves,
massed, overshadowing Charybdis pool.
O root.
O pool.
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Explanation:

From this excerpt, Odysseus is compared to a root because the narrator describes holding on to a "great fig tree" when the billow tossed him.

Speaking further, he also talks about being far away from the "root and bole" which is the comparison to Odyssey according to the excerpt.

He also speaks about the branches and leaves being far above his head.

the transfiguration of jesus is an event reported in the new testament when god: the meeting place of the temporal and the eternal, with jesus himself as the connecting point,

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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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