What do you think of this Odyssey poem?
In my English class, we had to write our own poem based on the Odyssey. I was just wondering, what do you guys think of this poem?
(I know its kind of long, so bear with me!:))
I Blame You, Odysseus
I survived the Trojan War,
I avoided the sweet Lotus Flower,
I survived the wrath of the Cyclops,
I survived the trip to the Land of the Dead,
I passed the territory of Sirens, without hearing their dreadful song,
And I have evaded the Wandering Rocks,
But what I haven’t survived, now that’s another story.
What killed me was Scylla, the dreaded sea monster, the most horrifying creature known to man, besides Medusa, of course.
Terrible, the beast was,
With eyes as big as ferries,
With a body hundreds of feet long,
And its mouth oh, her huge gaping mouth, was the last sight I saw before I ended up here,
In the Land of the Dead.
When the monster attacked us, every man dropped the oars in terror.
My friend, Politicus, was killed by the horrid monster.
I tried to save him, but alas, the monster knocked him overboard
Oh, how lucky he was.
I was thrown what seemed like hundreds of feet in the air,
Flailing my limbs wildly, screaming for help, but my actions were in vain, for the sound of her roar was deafening, drowning out the sound of my cries.
No one, not one person attempted to help me, and I was swallowed whole, suffocated in Scylla’s stomach. That day, I was covered by the shadow of death.
I blame Odysseus for my death,
I blame my fellow oarsmen for not rowing faster to avoid Scylla,
I blame Odysseus for ordering us to row that way in the first place!
My dear wife; widowed,
My sweet, sweet children; fatherless,
My life; ruined, all because of you Odysseus!
All because of you!