Lines 55–56 of “the seafarer,” the speaker says, “who could understand, / in ignorant ease, what we others suffer.” based on evidence from the poem, what do the seafarer and people like him endure? write one to two paragraphs in which you show that you understand what these seamen experience and why they go through such trouble. be sure to use reasons and examples from “the seafarer” to support your opinions.

"The Seafarer" is a 124-line poem, often considered to be a companion piece to "The Wanderer." It is written in Old English.

The first half of the poem mainly deals with the hardships the Seafarer experienced at sea. He is certain that land-dwellers cannot even understand these difficulties he faced during winter at sea. The Seafarer recounts the harsh and cold weather, the roaring of the waves as the only sound he could hear. He remembers how, during night watch, he would be frightened by the wildness of the waves. His feet frozen, he would feel extreme hunger.

He also describes his loneliness, the pain of being estranged from other people, which would sometimes cause him to pretend that the sounds of birds were actually the voices of sailors. The Seafarer also claims that land-dwellers live a more comfortable life in comparison to his life in isolation.

gilgamesh is an epic hero from birth, as he's brought to the world by the hand of several gods who shaped him with the goal of saving humanity. there's a passage from the text that reads "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". this is a great example that show some of the super-human qualities that the gods gave gilgamesh upon his birth.

as gilgamesh grows he has to face many challenges that put his heroism to task. the courage he displays along the way, prove that he's ready to live up to the godly qualities brought upon him. at one point he has to overcome a wild beast by the name of hubamba "whose roar is a flood, whose mouth is fire, whose breath is death", as the text reads. the actions taken by gilgamesh, beating the beast with the use of his super-human force, examplify why he shoud be thought of as an epic hero.

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