<span>The correct answer is A. The passage is an extended metaphor that uses the source domain of a bird soaring in to represent the target domain of having a sudden realisation. Birds are often used metaphorically to represent freedom, so this could link to the freedom that comes with realising something about himself or his life.</span>
For Odysseus and his men, the loss of Helios, the sun, symbolizes a loss of C. Hope.
In poetry, light ( such as the sun, the moon, candles, stars) often symbolizes good, hope, and freedom.
In the lines <em>"Never the flaming eye of Helios lights on those men at morning, when he climbs the sky of stars, nor in descending earthward out of heaven" </em>the reflected idea is that they do not see the sunrise or sunset anymore, thus they are eventually condemned to a total loss of light, that is to say, hope.
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The voyage of the James Caird was a journey of 1,300 kilometers (800 mi) from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands through the Southern Ocean to South Georgia, undertaken by Sir Ernest Shackleton and five companions to obtain rescue for the main body of the stranded Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914
