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The document discusses how Pascoli's poems illustrate the interconnectedness of all things through the butterfly effect, whereby even small actions can have large, unintended consequences. It explains that according to Edward Lorenz's theory, the flapping of a butterfly's wings could disrupt atomic particles worldwide and potentially cause a tornado on the other side of the globe. The butterfly effect demonstrates how predictions are impossible due to the countless complex causes behind any given event.
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Pascoli's poems in Last Voyage illustrate how everything is interconnected through the butterfly effect theory. The theory states that small causes can have large, distant effects, like a butterfly flapping its wings causing a tornado. Pascoli draws connections between life and death, showing how they are dependent on one another. His poems about The Odyssey also highlight cause and effect, but it is impossible to pinpoint exact causes, as one event may have multiple causes, like new grass growing on a grave being caused by the person's death or their birth many years prior.
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Pascoli's poems in Last Voyage illustrate how everything is interconnected through the butterfly effect theory. The theory states that small causes can have large, distant effects, like a butterfly flapping its wings causing a tornado. Pascoli draws connections between life and death, showing how they are dependent on one another. His poems about The Odyssey also highlight cause and effect, but it is impossible to pinpoint exact causes, as one event may have multiple causes, like new grass growing on a grave being caused by the person's death or their birth many years prior.
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Omens in the 'Odyssey'
Author(s): Anthony J. Podlecki
Source: Greece & Rome, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Apr., 1967), pp. 12-23
Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Classical Association
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/642463
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OMENS IN THE ODYSSEY
By ANTHONY J. PODLECKI
T HE Odyssey is principally the story of a return. A man has spent
ten years fighting a war in a distant country and another ten years
trying, against all sorts of obstacles and distractions, to get home to his
wife and family. Will he make it?
The imaginary listener sitting by the fireside when the Odyssey was
first recited, and the countless readers of the poem who have followed
after, knew that he would make it; Odysseus would get home. They
knew it and we know it not only through a familiarity with the myth
(which can be assumed even for Homer's first audience) but also be-
cause we are told, in the very opening of the first book, that the gods are
on the side of Odysseus. Athena receives verbal assurance from Zeus
that Odysseus will return. It is only a matter of time.
We may know that Odysseus will return, but Odysseus and the other
characters in the story certainly do not. And, as in most good stories, we
find ourselves standing beside the characters; we are involved in the
action with them and we see it unfolding from their point of view. As it
unfolds, they (and we) are given certain assurances, pledges of Olympian
concern in the story, indications that the gods are behind the action and
that all will turn out well in the end. To give these pledges their most
general term, they are omens or portents. These omens are in one sense
more significant for us, the readers, who know the divine plan for
Odysseus' return, than they are for the characters, who have to take
them as signs of hope for the future. But we are asked to suspend our
superior knowledge in the press of the action, so that for us, too, these
occurrences are truly ominous, pointing to the future, but shrouded in
mystery and with their full significance hidden from view.
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By ANTHONY J. PODLECKI
T HE Odyssey is principally the story of a return. A man has spent
ten years fighting a war in a distant country and another ten years
trying, against all sorts of obstacles and distractions, to get home to his
wife and family. Will he make it?
The imaginary listener sitting by the fireside when the Odyssey was
first recited, and the countless readers of the poem who have followed
after, knew that he would make it; Odysseus would get home. They
knew it and we know it not only through a familiarity with the myth
(which can be assumed even for Homer's first audience) but also be-
cause we are told, in the very opening of the first book, that the gods are
on the side of Odysseus. Athena receives verbal assurance from Zeus
that Odysseus will return. It is only a matter of time.
We may know that Odysseus will return, but Odysseus and the other
characters in the story certainly do not. And, as in most good stories, we
find ourselves standing beside the characters; we are involved in the
action with them and we see it unfolding from their point of view. As it
unfolds, they (and we) are given certain assurances, pledges of Olympian
concern in the story, indications that the gods are behind the action and
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general term, they are omens or portents. These omens are in one sense
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