<span>They had been driven by storm to an island near the land of the cyclopes. The <span>next morning Odysseus decided to see what land that was. Nobody knew about the <span>cyclopes. To understand the Odyssey I recommend you read it. </span></span></span>
The poem is about a young jewish girl living in a concentration camp during the <span> Holocaust. The tone and the mood is depressing and doubtful. </span>
The answer is that 'it was the first anti-slavery piece of literature', and at the time, slavery was still very present. So it was bound to be very controversial for its time.
