Read the excerpt below and answer the question. This is no deception sent by Queen Persephone, this is just the way of mortals w
hen we die. Sinews no longer bind the flesh and bones together – the spirit rustling, flitters away flown like a dream. Who says the above quote and why? Anticleia is explaining why Odysseus cannot embrace her. Agamemnon is explaining that he is real. Elpenor is asking Odysseus to give him a proper burial. Tiresias is explaining why he needs blood to tell the truth.
The answer is: Anticleia is explaining why Odysseus cannot embrace her.
In the excerpt from "The Oddysey," Odysseus travels to the underworld, where he finds his mother's spirit. She tells him she has died of sadness, while waiting for him to go back from war. However, when Odysseus wishes to embrace his mother, he finds out her body is not composed of matter - it has no material existance and his arms pass through her. Anticleia is extremely upset, and explains that ghosts have no physical solidness.
Writers and poets use personification to bring inanimate things to life, so that their nature and actions are understood in a better way. Because it is easier for us to relate to something that is human or that possesses human traits.
