The way Homer conveys his stories to the audience :: Literature

The Way home run Conveys his Stories to the AudienceHomer who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey used a number of different techniques to convey his poems and stories to his audience. I will be pee verbally ab come forward these in this essay.Right from the beginning of Book 9 we live Homers ability to convey the business relationship well, he starts it with a monologue from Odysseus to King Alcinous on his adventure. It gets right into the action which wouldve held his audiences inte repose throughout. He finds ways to get around justifying things by pushing Odysseus right out of the known world round Cape Malea into the unknown. He is then allowed to create a fictional world, another dimension where he cant be corrected. He creates islands and peoples, whole civilisations of monsters. This I take is an excellent example of Homers right(a) composition.He also weaves all these stories together from old folk tales and although there are some slight mistakes he was reciting it by mouth so couldnt just press the backspace key he had to have on even if he had made a mistake. The water flea story and others were probably not told together like they are in the Odyssey, they wouldve been told by different groups and tribes around fires. So this is another example of well Homer composes the whole story into one massive epic poem which is the Odyssey.another(prenominal) example of his hot composition is how he makes the whole thing into a formula, in formulaic epithet. Not many people could probably do that straight away. He sometimes goes on auto-pilot by using the identical phrases. E.g. As soon as Dawn appeared, fresh and rosy-fingered. This shows another good example of Homers composition excellence.Homer does make mistakes though, he sometimes when trying to weave the folk tales gets them jumbled up and doesnt correct them. E.g. The Cyclops then washed this meal down with unwatered take out It was not normal then to water milk and isnt now. We believe Hom er made this mistake purposefully, as in the original the Cyclops may have been drinking booze but that would mean the rest of the story wouldnt work so he quickly replaced wine with milk but didnt get rid of unwatered.