Salem State University - Clipper Yearbook

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Eh? Qllipprr Staff . . - .l. .Q5ff 'T'f.I W'w1 W .U ji. -'?'- 'T.e5f.:s L . . Svrozm' Row: li. Spencer, B. VVolfe, C. Rogers, S. Jackson, D. Jolinsrm, il Leary, M. Sullivan, li. Freed. lfirsf Row: Miss liurnliani, M. Strople, V. Panagoplos, P. Smith, E. Prince l'. Collins, Miss Beers.

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I I ,. 'I I I I -lj II, Q . I I I I I I I I I 4 I I I I I I I I 'hr ilgrrziihrnfa fllllewagr XXX- have no way of knowing whether or not llomer intended the Odyssey to he allegorical, like Spenser's lfaerie Queene or lIunyan's l'ilgrim's Progress: but the voyages of Odysseus have been frequently and appropriately com- pared with the voyage of life, and by Iigurative interpretatifmn, the expe- riences of that redoubtable mariner identify the experiences of all of us who chart a course from the harbor of birth to the port of death. liach incident has a metaphorical significance which challenges the imagination of the individual reader. Thus, the mild-eyed, melancholy Lotus-eaters might represent those who habitually yield to the vice of indolencc, who mock their talents by inaction, whose accomplishment is measured by caprice rather than persist- ence. who leave to posterity nothing but a heritage of waste and dissipation. The Cyclops might be any tyrant who seeks by sheer malevolence to crush his less powerful neighbors. He might be Attila or Caligula or Herodg he might be Kaiser NYilhelm or Hitler or Stalin. The blinding of the Cyclops is symbolic of the truth that tyranny has never prevailed in the end. livery nation which has persisted in it has been ultimately consume-cl by fires of its own makingg every government projected on the ideology that might is right has endured only until the forces of that delusion have spent themselves. Nature is the sanction of international life just as truly as it is the sanction of individual life. The Russian totalitarians will discover in the end that it takes more than the fanatical bluster of overlords to secure the happiness of a people or to establish the permanency of a government. Aeolus gave Odysseus the winds tied up in bags-except the west wind which would have blown him home if the avarice of his crew had not prompted them to open the bags in the belief that they were filled with treasure. This indiscrction was followed by confusion and panic as the ship drove violently in three directions and was finally brought to anchor in the waters of the Laestrygones who were cannibals and giants. The obvious moral is that greed is a deadly sin whose consequences are inevitably computed in terms of futility and despair. The song of the sirens might simulate the lure of the Heshpots which has been chronicled in literature and legend since the beginning of time. Scylla and Charybdis might typify the hazards and tribulations by which we are beset as we sail under billowing canvas toward the horizon of our dreams. The voyage of life is a perpetual adventure. There are quiet interludes and stormy passages. Joy is counterbalanced by grief: fulfillment, by frus- tration. The hopes of yesterday become the realities of tomorrow - or droop like some neglected flower before the season of fruition. Fears accumulate when dangers threaten: happiness mounts as successes are achieved. .X pot- pourri of risks and challenges: an admixture of victory and defeat. Odysseus came home to his Penelope after years of wandering, flushed with triumph, tempered by adversity. He was able to come home because he had prepared himself for the voyage by self-discipline and restraint, because he was intrepid in the face of peril, unyielding in the pursuit of his destiny. I think it would be well for us to consider this great poem as an allegory. The lessons to be drawn from it are as old as man and as steadfast as the Iirmament. Q , lfvtbq

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I I I 1 I I I Uhr Gllippvr Stuff I I I II'llYI,I.IS SMITH I ff4l'1'fw'-ill-C'Iliff 5 YIOIUX l'AXN.XC1UI'l,tJS .'I,v.s'f.s'f1IlIf fflfflnr ,xxx It MQN.xA1,x1e-x I . , . I l,IflIl'lIV,v ILIIIIHI' IXMICS IJ. LIZARY I . ' lilrxzazvss IIlf111I141jU1' I I'H.XRl,liS IC, RUIZIQRS IEl2.X'l'RICIf K. XX'UI,I'I 1,,I0f0fjl'IIj7lI-X' lflfI.f0l'5 I S'l'.XNI,IiY IX. IRXCKSIJX M.XRY Ii. STRUVI I :IfI,'Z'L'I'fI'.YI-llfj .IlllIlfIffl'I'S I 1 IKXUI, I L'.XMIiI,I,U lDlJN.'XI.IJ Ii .IIJHNSUX ' flrf Editors I ILXRISXRA IFRILIZDI CQS'l'.RX IiI,IZAI3li'l'H .X. Sl'IiXCI'Ix GEORGE XY. HIJSKHR MARY If. SL'I-I.IYfX'X -Alswficlfv Eflifors PATRICIA M. L'OI.I.INS .S'vc'1'vtc1 ry PRESIDENT IEDXYIXRIJ A. SL7I,I-IY,RXN l MISS GERTRLIIDE BEIZRS MISS GIZRTIRUIJIE BURNHQXM Art .RllSIIIl'SS and I,I'fl'l'lIl'-X' I fl dt'i.vvrs I I I I