The chapter on the Cyclopes (with Polyphemus, and all the
humourous word play about "nobody") is full of foreshadowing about how difficult it will
be for Odysseus to actually make the journey
home.
Personification, or giving an inanimate object human
characteristics is used in this chapter sparingly.
Dawn is
referenced as having fingertips. "the young dawn stretched up her fingertips..."
describing how the rays of sunlight at the very start of the day reached up, as fingers.
Strikingly similar to people, when we wake up and stretch out our arms to help
awake.
Death too is given a personification, that of
sitting. "Death sat there huge" - As death is clearly not a person, sitting is the
personification. This image implies that death is merely waiting, and large in the mind
of the hero, an ominous image for the reader to understand what Odysseus is going
through.
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