The carpe diem is generally instructs
the readers on how to live and enjoy life, but not all carpe diem
poems instruct offer of advice through the poet's first hand
experience. Many contemporary poems reminds us about life's
overlooked pleasures. Carpe Diem is popular as a theme because it's a
sentiment possesses of elasticity of meaning both possibility and
futility.
Elpenor was one of Odysseus' comrades, and happened to be the youngest. This was labelled as part of the road of trials for that fact he had to mourn about this, thinking this was his fault. He had to overcome this.