William Saroyan's novel The Human Comedy is set in a fictional California town with this name.
One poem titled after this place asks the reader to "stop at Phoenician markets and purchase fine merchandise" and to "visit many Egyptian cities to learn and learn from scholars." William Saroyan's novel The Human Comedy is set in a fictional California town with this name. The poem titled after this place notes that "she has (*) nothing more to give you" and advises "pray that the road is long." Another poem set here notes its port where "the vessel puffs her sail" and where "gloom the dark broad seas." That poem describes this place as having a "still hearth, among these barren crags," and claims it is populated by a "savage race, that hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me." Residents of this place in another work include the nursemaid Eurycleia, the goatherd Eumaeus, and the loyal dog Argos. For 10 points, name this island where a group of suitors pester Penelope in the Odyssey.
One poem titled after this place asks the reader to "stop at Phoenician markets and purchase fine merchandise" and to "visit many Egyptian cities to learn and learn from scholars."
{Ithaca}