Literatura Travel as a metaphor for life

1. Travel as a metaphor for
life
In Literature
Zeno Bendinelli

2. Travail of the Middle
Not only in space is also seen thro
Word "life" is most often associated with the w
Different m
Life is but a journey, to travel is to live twi
(Omar Khayyam)

3. Travel as a mataphor for
life in Literature
Is one of the most frequent images
The Odyssey of Homer sums the meanings of
the journey
The journey is a return trip (nostos)
The stages of the return (in greek nostos) are
twelve

4.  The Ciconi
 The Lotus Eaters
 the cyclops Polyphemus
 Aeolus
 The Lestrigoni
 Circe and Hades
 Sirens
 Scylla, Charybdis and the island of Helium
 Calypso
 The Phaeacians
 Return to Ithaca

5. The journey can not consist only
entering harbor at the port end
 The trip will become a test of
knowledge
 The meaning of travel is mainly in
its path
“Il senso della ricerca sta nel cammino fatto e non nella m
il fine del viaggiare é il viaggiare stesso e non l'arrivare
(Tiziano Terzani)

6. The sea voyage is indeed a metaphor for
life.
The existence (the ship) is bound to lose his
leadership (the reason)
At a symbolic level the open sea is the true
provocative dimension where the wreck is always
possible
The journey becomes increasingly metaphor of
abandonment

7. Free man, you will always cherish the sea!
The sea is your mirror; you contemplate your soul
In the infinite unrolling of its billows;
Your mind is an abyss that is no less bitter.
You like to plunge into the bosom of your image;
You embrace it with eyes and arms, and your heart
Is distracted at times from its own clamoring
By the sound of this plaint, wild and untamable.
Both of you are gloomy and reticent:
Man, no one has sounded the depths of your being;
O Sea, no person knows your most hidden riches,
So zealously do you keep your secrets!
Yet for countless ages you have fought each other
Without pity, without remorse,
So fiercely do you love carnage and death,
O eternal fighters, implacable brothers!
 Charles Baudelaire
L'Homme et la mer

8. The first literary character that modern
relies on the law of the sea is Robinson
CrusoeSo at sea begins his journey that becomes the challenge,
need of adventure, desire for freedom, knowledge test, the
new research, overcoming obstacles, evasion, but also
adaptation, testing and verification of their experience
Island of Despair
The master of the island.
In this sense, each of us is Robinson, also called to the
boundless sea of knowledge and opportunity to find himself
in the island of his own self.

9. Dante and the Divine
ComedyA trip with an allegorical meaning
Dante then equals and exceeds Odysseus
XXVI chant
Odysseus, in fact, is entrusted only to reason

10. The Grand Tour
The journey of education and training
Don’t tell me how educated you ar
Tell me how much you travelled.
(Mohamed)

11. The myth of Ulysses,
reinterpreted
Because of the elements of openness and
ambiguity that encloses
Joyce's Ulysses
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy won
but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
(Italo Calvino)

12. Ulysses and Odyssey, then, are used as key
terms to address and to better understand
our daily reality
The journey thus encompasses a
substantial polarity
The journey never ends. Only travelers
(José Sarmago)

13. What does the prhase “I love to travel”
mean?
 Birth
 Adolescence
 Objectives
The real voyage of discovery consists no
seeking new landscapes, but in having n
eyes.
(Proust)

14. To infinity and beyond