Reread these lines from the poem. and wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land. oh as i was young and easy in the mercy of his means, time held me green and dying though i sang in my chains like the sea. how do these lines reflect the theme that the happiness of childhood is fleeting? they show that the speaker feels like being an adult is like dying or being shackled. they show that his happy times on the farm seem like a dream to the speaker now. they show that the speaker will never see the farm in the same way he did as a child. they show that the speaker thinks time was merciful to allow him to become an adult.

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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