twenty years gone, and i am back again

on my own island.

as for my change of skin,

that is a charm athena, hope of soldiers,

uses as she will; she has the knack

to make me seem a beggar man sometimes

and sometimes young, with finer clothes about me.

it is no hard thing for the gods of heaven

to glorify a man or bring him low.

—the odyssey,
homer

based on what odysseus says in the passage, what has he learned?

the answer is:  

he is voicing feelings shared by all humans regardless of race.

in paul laurence dunbar's poem "we wear the mask," he replicates the words mask and we to emphasize how people in general -not just black americans- hide their true feelings. he suggests the masks cover people's faces and eyes, which are the main parts that display their emotions. he also thinks people's pain conceal behind those masks, so that they cannot see reality and nobody is able to see one another's sorrow.

no. but, i heard its a good book. you could look up the answers or summary on some website.