What do we know for sure about homer? select all that apply.

a. he was from ionia.
b. the scholars at alexandria treated him as a single poet who wrote the iliad and the odyssey.
c. "he" was really a woman named nausicaa.
d. he was blind.
e. we know that someone—individually or collectively—wrote the odyssey.
f. a good deal of controversy surrounds the poet's identity.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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the third paragraph is the the soltion or ending of a story