"We beached there, and I told the crew/ to stand by and keep watch over the ship;/ as for myself I took my twelve best fighters/ and went ahead."(71-25).
Climax
"We climbed, then, briskly to the cave. But Cyclops/ had gone afield, to pasture his fat sheep,/ so we looked round at everything inside" (116-119).
Falling Action
"In the glare he saw us.'Strangers', he said, 'who are you? And where from?What brings you here by sea ways a fair traffic?Or are you wandering rogues, who cast your liveslike dice, and ravage other folk by sea'" (155-159)?
Resolution
"Straight/ forward they sprinted, lifted it, and rammed it/ deep in his crater eye, and I leaned on it/ turning it as a shipwright turns a drill/ in planking, having men below to swing/ the two-handled strap that spins it in the groove./ So with our brand we bored that great eye socket" (290-296).
"the rams began to stir, moving for pasture,/ and peals of bleating echoed round the pens/ where dams with udders full called for a milking./ Blinded, and sick with pain from his head wound,/ the master stroked each ram, then let it pass,/ but my men riding on the pectoral fleece/ the giant’s blind hands blundering never found. (347-354).