Assignment
Active
Finding Features of Epic Poetry
Which features of epic poetry does this passage show?
Check all that apply.
At four hundred miles they stopped to eat,
at a thousand miles they pitched their camp.
They had traveled for just three days and nights,
a six weeks' journey for ordinary men.
When the sun was setting, they dug a well,
they filled their waterskins with fresh water,
Gilgamesh climbed to the mountaintop
-Gilgamesh: A New English Translation,
Stephen Mitchell
|
a vast setting
a supernatural force
a hero with great strength
a compelling, formal speech
a narrative voice