Please provide examples of figurative language in Books 1 and 2 of Homer's Odyssey.

Throughout Homer's Odyssey, the epic
poet uses figurative language to help enliven his story. Numerous examples of this can
be found in the first two books of the poem.

At
Odyssey 1.50, for example, Homer describes the sea as having a
"navel" (Richmond Lattimore translation). Of course, the
sea does not literally have a belly button, but Homer is describing Calypso's home as
being in the middle of the sea.

Some of Homer's epithets
contain figurative language. Consider Odyssey 1.122, where
Telemachus addresses Athene, who is disguised as a mortal named Mentes. Homer describes
Telemachus' words as "winged." Obviously, his words do not
literally have wings; this is a figurative way to describe speech that moves swiftly to
the point.

Finally, at Odyssey
2.237-238, we find another example of figurative language as Mentor observes
how the suitors "violently devour / the house of Odysseus."
Again, the poet does not literally mean that the suitors are eating
Odysseus' house, although they certainly are eating enough of his food to bankrupt
Odysseus' estate.