Ineed on writing an intro, i need some ideas.
as you write your response, you will use strong and thorough textual evidence from both the odyssey and “an ancient gesture” to develop your claims and follow the conventions of standard english. how do the depictions of grief in the odyssey and "an ancient gesture" develop a universal theme? how does millay use the story of penelope and odysseus to convey a modern theme? (at least 4 paragraphs)

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. that strain again! it had a dying fall: o, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour! now read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." for i have known them all already, known them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, i have measured out my life with coffee spoons; i know the voices dying with a dying fall beneath the music from a farther room. what does the phrase "dying fall" most likely mean in both excerpts