Please help!! Find what are being compared. 1. He sprang through the waves and caught her, then crouched amid ships,
Avoiding sure death, while a great wave bobbled the boat
This way and that with the current. As when in autumn
The North Wind blows close-clinging ball of thistles
About the fields, even so the winds were driving
That boat of his this way and that on the sea.

2. But when the fair-haired Dawn the third day came,
The wind died to a calm, and he, from the top
Of a wave, looked hard ahead and caught sight of the shore
Near by. And then as a dying man’s children are glad
When the demon disease is broken and their father, who pined
In pain for so long, is released from suffering and death
By the grace of gods, even so Odysseus rejoiced
At the sight of land and trees and swam on, more than eager
To set foot on that shore.