Discuss Cavafys modern interpretation of Ithaca and explain how it differs from the ancient representation of Ithaca in Homers poem.

Compare Cavafys rendering of the voyage to Ithaca as a symbolic journey through life with ONE of the modern poems you are reading for this course by Whitman, Baudelaire and Walcott.

Refer to Dantes Inferno, Canto 26, to show how the medieval imagination went beyond the idea of Ithaca as a fixed destination and suggested a new understanding of the human journey as an ongoing quest for knowledge and experience.