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Calypso by Suzanne Vega

My name is Calypso And I have lived alone

I live on an island And I waken to the dawn

A long time ago I watched him struggle with the sea

I knew that he was drowning And I brought him into me

Now today Come morning light

He sails away After one last night

I let him go.

My name is Calypso My garden overflows

Thick and wild and hidden Is the sweetness there that grows

My hair it blows long As I sing into the wind

My name is Calypso And I have lived alone

I live on an island I tell of nights

Where I could taste The salt on his skin

Salt of the waves And of tears

And though he pulled away I kept him here for years

I let him go My name is Calypso

I have let him go In the dawn he sails away To be gone forever more

And the waves will take him in again But he 'll know their ways now

I will stand upon the shore With a clean heart

And my song in the wind The sand will sting my feet

And the sky will burn It 's a lonely time ahead

I do not ask him to return I let him go I let him go

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“Calypso” Questions

Directions: After reading Suzanne Vega’s poem/song, “Calypso,” answer the following questions:

1. What narrative point of view is used in this song?

2. What narrative point of view is used in The Odyssey?

3. Who is narrating the song?

4. Who is the man Calypso is referring to in the song?

5. Is he a guest or prisoner on Calypso’s island?

6. In The Odyssey, what does Calypso offer Odysseus to stay on her island?

7. In the song, Calypso, says, “I let him go.” How does this differ from her action in The Odyssey?

8. Would you consider this a love song? Explain why or why not.

9. Suzanne Vega was born in 1959. Why do you think she wrote a song about a story that is more than 3000 years old?

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