It's Not So "Fluffy" As I Thought!

So far that I've read in The Odyssey, it's been really good. I thought it was going to written in "fluffy" language (you know...how Shakespeare writes his books) and it was going to have words as big as my head but it's nothing of the sort. The only big words I saw was Telemachus. Speaking of Telemachus, is he allowed to take his father's place as king? And also, he seems much to sensitive and small to act so mighty and kingly. Yes I do understand that he is the man of the house and must take precise precautions in running his house but have the right of ordering your mother around? Now that's just bizarre. If I even thought of telling my mother to go back to her father's house and go marry someone else because my father was gone, heck...I would be asked to leave the house!
It is written in verses and when I first opened the book I thought it was going to be written as a poem. Before you start to say "It is written in a poem", take it from my view of what a poem is before we all start this discussion on what a poem is (again).

My picture of a poem is it rhymes (most of the time) and is written in alliterations most of the time. But this sort of "poem" is like a story where, even though there are verses, it doesn't rhyme. In conclusion, the book is alright...I just have to start thinking of what I'm going to write for the essay due next week. Well I have to go and read more...need to get up to at least pg. 200. Any comments, hit me up. (Besides, you have to..Faughey said you had to make at least one comment in everyone's log...so might as well get it over with now...)