Idrove my weight on it from above and bored it home
as a shipwright bores his beam with a shipwright's drill
that men below, whipping the strap back and forth, whirl
and the drill keeps twisting faster, never stopping –
what is odysseus attempting to do in this passage?
odysseus is attempting to hold onto a tree branch while waiting for his raft to emerge from charybdis.
odysseus is attacking polyphemus by staking him in the eye.
odysseus is repairing his ship after withstanding a violent ocean storm.
odysseus is teaching his crew how to fight in case the other cyclopses attack them.