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**The Last Journey of Odysseus**
The common perception is that the end of Odysseus' journey is a place where he returns to the embrace of his family with joy and happiness. However, this is not the end. Not for Odysseus, no. For Odysseus, this is just the beginning of the main adventure. Odysseus, who blinded the one-eyed Cyclops, Odysseus, who escaped from the jaws of the sea monster Charybdis, Odysseus, who fought against Poseidon, the god of the sea, Odysseus, who led his comrades through a thousand hardships. Now he must sit and watch his wife Penelope weave calmly and see his young son Telemachus drive the sheep to the pen every day. He must see how everything passes in peace, boredom, and meaninglessness, and he is slowly walking towards his inevitable death, a death that has defeated him many times in his adventures. But now, how can he defeat this inevitable death? Homer, in the style of modern writers, has only told us the prelude of Odysseus' story and ended the story exactly at the starting point, so that we can guess what a great and indescribable tragedy awaits Odysseus, our beloved hero: a meaningless and boring tragedy. The tragedy of a peaceful life! This is where the later poets began the life of Odysseus from the place where Homer ended it: always the same, whether in Dante's account or in Alfred Tennyson's account, Odysseus, Odysseus, who had come out victorious from the battles with the gods and demons, now bows his back in the battle with a peaceful life. The taste of the salt of unknown seas, the smell of the desolate shores, does not bring peace. What other ending can he imagine for himself? Once again, he gathers his comrades and shouts "Abandon this peaceful and worthless life and come with me again to seek something that we don't even know what it is!" "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses.
The common perception is that the end of Odysseus' journey is a place where he returns to the embrace of his family with joy and happiness. However, this is not the end. Not for Odysseus, no. For Odysseus, this is just the beginning of the main adventure. Odysseus, who blinded the one-eyed Cyclops, Odysseus, who escaped from the jaws of the sea monster Charybdis, Odysseus, who fought against Poseidon, the god of the sea, Odysseus, who led his comrades through a thousand hardships. Now he must sit and watch his wife Penelope weave calmly and see his young son Telemachus drive the sheep to the pen every day. He must see how everything passes in peace, boredom, and meaninglessness, and he is slowly walking towards his inevitable death, a death that has defeated him many times in his adventures. But now, how can he defeat this inevitable death? Homer, in the style of modern writers, has only told us the prelude of Odysseus' story and ended the story exactly at the starting point, so that we can guess what a great and indescribable tragedy awaits Odysseus, our beloved hero: a meaningless and boring tragedy. The tragedy of a peaceful life! This is where the later poets began the life of Odysseus from the place where Homer ended it: always the same, whether in Dante's account or in Alfred Tennyson's account, Odysseus, Odysseus, who had come out victorious from the battles with the gods and demons, now bows his back in the battle with a peaceful life. The taste of the salt of unknown seas, the smell of the desolate shores, does not bring peace. What other ending can he imagine for himself? Once again, he gathers his comrades and shouts "Abandon this peaceful and worthless life and come with me again to seek something that we don't even know what it is!" "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses.