Often times, these sacrifices are as common as sparing a favorite food or recreation as Catholics do during the Lent season, this method perhaps more widespread as it provides a humaneness that several of other approaches lack. All of these practices, however, share a collective purpose in worshipping and honoring a higher being, in most cases, a god-like figure. ... As Zeus clarifies his opinion of hero Odysseus to his daughter Athena, who is seeking his help in protecting the suffering him from the ceaseless danger he has encountered, he proclaims, " 'Great Odysseus who excels all ...

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He begins in the present with a symbolic/metaphorical reference to 'autumn' years of life observing that "All's changed" as he reaches the "twilight" of life. Yeats' confinement within the metaphoric 'dry' 'woodland paths' of time and the seasons is contrasted with the mysteriously changeless swans. ... The freedom, innocence and enthusiasm that is seen in the 'children's eyes' on Yeats visit are juxtaposed against the 'sixty-year old smiling' man, catalysing his reverie. ...

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