What is the tone of on the roof its drone is the horizon drawing closer for a kiss, for an embrace whose message is, whose muscle is the comfort of, the family of, the sociability of being mortal. outside, the leaves have multiplied its pitter into the stuff of plainsong. so many oceans to be spoken of. such soft ovations numbering innumerable names for hush. who understands this tongue? no one. no one and no one and no one.

With crack on crack of thunder, zeus let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in reeking fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the sea. they came up 'round the wreck, bobbing a while like petrels on the waves. no more seafaring homeward for these, no sweet day of return; the god had turned his face from them. –the odyssey, homer read the passage. then, identify the theme that is supported by the passage. most ships cannot survive a terrible thunderstorm. the ocean is an angry beast that will tame any who try to control it. the gods have the power to control human destiny. men are willing to die to eat the delicious cattle of the gods.