"No need, my unlucky one, to grieve here any longer,
no, don’t waste your life away. Now I am willing,
heart and soul, to send you off at last."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 5, lines 177-179. There is dramatic irony in the lustrous goddess Calypso’s declaration to a forlorn-looking Odysseus sitting on the beach that she is willing to release him. The reader knows that she is not doing this of her own free will but is following the orders of Zeus.