A Study Guide for Joseph Brodsky's "Odysseus to Telemachus"
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Odysseus to Telemachus
Joseph Brodsky
1972
Introduction
Joseph Brodsky's poem Odysseus to Telemachus
was written in 1972 at the time when Joseph Brodsky emigrated from Russia to the United States. It was translated into English by George L. Kline and included in the English collection A Part of Speech, published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in 1980, where it is the final piece in the poem cycle entitled, A Song to No Music.
The epistolary poem borrows several specific elements from the Homeric epic Odyssey. It is addressed by Odysseus to his absent son Telemachus. The setting is Aeaea, the land ruled by the sorceress Circe, who has changed Odysseus's sailors to pigs. In the Homeric epic, when Odysseus is in Aeaea, Telemachus is at home on the island of Ithaca with his mother Penelope.
Author Biography
Joseph (also spelled Iosif) Alexandrovich Brodsky was Born May 24, 1940, into a Russian Jewish family living in Leningrad, Russia (then part of the USSR). His father was an officer in the old Soviet navy, and after he was stripped of his rank, the family became poverty-stricken. Brodsky attended school until about 1956, after which he held a wide variety of jobs, including operating a milling machine, working in a prison morgue, and assisting in a geological study. Through these early years, he engaged in an energetic and extensive endeavor of self-education, teaching himself English and Polish and studying religion, classical mythology, and philosophy, and by the late 1950s, he was writing poetry in Russian and translating into Russian from the original Polish the poetry of his favorite poet Czeslaw