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    A Study Guide for C. P. Cavafy's "Ithaka"
    A Study Guide for C. P. Cavafy's "Ithaka"
    A Study Guide for C. P. Cavafy's "Ithaka"
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    A Study Guide for C. P. Cavafy's "Ithaka"

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    A Study Guide for C. P. Cavafy's "Ithaka," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 26, 2016
    ISBN9781535826266
    A Study Guide for C. P. Cavafy's "Ithaka"

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      A Study Guide for C. P. Cavafy's "Ithaka" - Gale

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      Ithaka

      C. P. Cavafy

      1911

      Introduction

      The first version of Ithaka was probably written in 1894. Cavafy revised the poem in 1910, and it was first published in 1911. The first English translation was published in 1924, and there have been a number of different translations since then. The poem can be found in Cavafy's Collected Poems, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, edited by George Savidis, Princeton University Press, 1980.

      Ithaka is an unrhymed poem of five stanzas that employ conversational, everyday language. The narrator, probably a man who has traveled a lot, addresses either Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey, or an imaginary modern traveler or reader. The narrator tells the traveler that what is really important is not Ithaka, the island home that was the goal of Odysseus's years of wandering, but the journey itself. It is the journey that must be fully enjoyed at every moment, using all the resources of senses and intellect, because the goal itself is likely to be

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