As I read the Odysseus I found it interesting as how the text was written first and foremost as most of the literature we read was told as stories and this one was written as a song.I can visually see this story being told in a tavern in which one had come home from a long day and needed something to keep their mind distracted or entertained.I saw this in the first stanza in the story in which they say “o friends o ever partners of my woes” it seems to get the people to feel invested in this story as its sung.I was also wondering as to why they were using quotations within stanza 2,3,4,5,6 but I found it very interesting that they wouldnt close the quotation until stanza 6.I was thinking when they wouldnt finish a quotation in which i can see it as a pause in which the speaker catches their breath and tries to rile their audience and try to get banter from them.Stanza six could be seen as a way for the speaker to finish the story by getting the audience to finish the story as if they expect the audience to already know of the story.within the text I found evidence in which they would use exclamation points every so often in order to emphasize a revelation or a action.while the story itself I didnt feel was impactful it was the use of their description and world building that had me going through the story in which “flowery meads the sportive sirens play” not only did I find this as the only description I needed of the mermaids of the story It had me thinking how they defined the feminity of mermaids indirectly in which they described the mermaids to be laying in a beautiful field of flowers.