Read the excerpt below and answer the question. so he growled from his depths, hackles rising out their outrage. "bear up, old heart! you've borne worse, far worse, that day when the cyclops, man-mountain, bolted your hardy comrades down. but you held fast – " who is speaking here? athena telemachus odysseus eumaeus

I do believe that the answer is Odysseus.

the difference between an explicit and implicit meaning is that the explicit meaning of a poem is that the detail is exactly defined. nothing is left to interpretation. an implicit meaning is an implied meaning. kabir's poetry is both explicit and implicit in that it can be interpreted on different levels. the explicit meaning leaves nothing to interpretation while the implicit meaning leaves lots open to interpretation. an example of this is found in the poem "rumi and the spiritual lover". 

the god   the goddess of salt water, of fresh water   yet more powerful and perfect.