It shows that hes determined to return to his family because he loves them because he went all over the world to return to ithica
Answer:
Hyperbole is wrong so sorry for my first answer, its personifacation.
He does it beacuse he fears a hurricane. The excerpt that supports this part is:
Then up and spake an old Sailòr, Had sailed to the Spanish Main,
"I pray thee, put into yonder port,
For I fear a hurricane.
I tried and tried to understand the problem. this phrase is a prepositional phase se one is telling something
