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What is the effect of the epic similes in lines 118-131 of the excerpt from the Odyssey, Part 2?

Sometimes in farmyards when the cows return well-fed from the pasture to the barn, one sees the pens give away before the calves tumult, breaking through to cluster their mothers, bumping together bawling.

from the Odyssey, Part 2 [Lines 122-126]

A. to criticize the lack of loyalty of Odysseus's Men.
B. to reveal Odysseus's hurry to go back and free his men.
C. to show how thoroughly Odysseus's men depended on him - I picked this one