Jackie
The song Jackie has the same story like the Odyssey. Jackie is like Odysseus in that he has been gone many years, and he was a skillful sailor. The singer is like Penelope in her long suffering wait and her grief. The speaker has faith in Jackie’s return exactly like Penelope has faith in Odysseus’s return to Ithaca.
Theme When people who love each other are separated – by death, war, or irreconcilable differences, for example – the healing process can take years and years.
Figures of speech Hyperbole: Sailed the seas for a hundred years. I’ve been dead for twenty years I’ve been washing the sand with my salty/ghostly tears
Simile That man knows the sea like the back of his hand. It tells how Jackie is a very skillful sailor and knows the sea very well.
Music End rhyme: Alliteration: Consonance: Home, alone; years, tears; sand, hand; shore, more. Alliteration: Sailed the seas Stared at the sand Consonance: Leaving me all alone