Write an essay discussing whether learning from past mistakes can lead to personal growth

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? humans can become like gods. humans are under the gods’ control. humans can change from beggars to soldiers.

How does richard lovelace depict war in this excerpt from “to lucasta, going to the wars”?

Instead of merely taking over poetic forms from previous eras, the romantic poets developed the form known as the