Read these stanzas from the poem "a poet and his song" by paul laurence dunbar. my days are never days of ease; i till my ground and prune my trees. when ripened gold is all the plain, i put my sickle to the grain. i labor hard, and toil and sweat, while others dream within the dell; but even while my brow is wet, i sing my song, and all is well. sometimes the sun, unkindly hot, my garden makes a desert spot; sometimes a blight upon the tree takes all my fruit away from me; and then with throes of bitter pain rebellious passions rise and swell; but—life is more than fruit or grain, and so i sing, and all is well. how is the message of this poem similar to the poet’s message in "mother to son"? both poems celebrate american agriculture. both poems suggest that physical labor is enjoyable. both poems encourage endurance through hardships. both poems insist that hard work leads to wealth.
Both poems encourage endurance through hardships. In both poems, the message would be "keep going," or "carry on." A person should not give up in the face of struggles; instead, one must endure.
gilgamesh is a hero by birth as the epic explains it. in the epic the birth is explained in the way which tells us that gilgamesh’s creation was made perfect by the contribution of various god and that signifies the goal in his life, which was to become a hero and save mankind. an example from the text says. "the glorious sun shamash bestowed upon him glory; adad the terrible god of storms bestowed upon him courage. the great gods perfected his magnificence beyond all others, terrible like the great wild bull. two thirds god they made him; one third man they made him." a man born with superhuman qualities and partly god is destined to be a hero.
the heroic deeds carried by him later in his life also prove the heroic character of gilgamesh. for example hi battle with the ultimate beast humbaba is a proof of his bravery and characteristic heroism. gilgamesh was warned about the beast as the text says about humbaba “whose roar is a flood, whose mouth is fire, whose breath is death". but with the superhuman strength gilgamesh did the job