The intercession of the heavenly gives Gilgamesh trust that he will defeat Humbaba.
Further Explanation:
1. Epic poetry
Epic poetry tells an emotional story in a poem. There are characters in the story. It is usually long, and takes place in various settings. Epic lyrics began in ancient occasions as a feature of oral custom.
Beowulf is a typical example, written in Old English. Well-known people who wrote epics were Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Edmund Spenser and Milton. William Wordsworth's Prelude plays with epic ideas though the poem is autobiography.
2. Basic Feather of Epic
There are certainly gods, demons, angels, fairies, and use of supernatural forces like natural catastrophes in every epic. Milton's Paradise Lost, Homer's Iliad, Beowulf and Spenser's Faerie Queen are replete with supernatural elements. Profound quality is a key normal for an epic.
3. Characteristics of Epic
The hero is outstanding. They might be important, and historically or legendarily significant.
The setting is large. It covers many nations, or the known world.
The action is made of deeds of great valour or requiring superhuman courage.
Supernatural forces—gods, angels, demons—insert themselves in the action.
It is written in a very special style (verse as opposed to prose).
The poet tries to remain objective.
Epic poems are believed to be supernatural and real by the hero and the villain
4. Gilgamesh
Gilgamesh was a historical king of the Sumerian city-state of Uruk, a major hero in ancient Mesopotamian mythology, and the Hero of the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem written in Akkadian during the late second millennium BC. He likely ruled between 2800 and 2500 BC and was after death idolized. He became a major figure in Sumerian legends during the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2112 – c. 2004 BC). Stories of Gilgamesh's incredible endeavors are described in five enduring Sumerian sonnets. The earliest of these is probably Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld, in which Gilgamesh comes to the aid of the goddess Inanna and drives away the creatures infesting her huluppu tree. She gives him two unknown objects called a mikku and a pikku, which he loses. After Enkidu's death, his shade tells Gilgamesh about the bleak conditions in the Underworld. The poem Gilgamesh and Agga describes Gilgamesh's revolt against his overlord King Agga. Other Sumerian poem relate Gilgamesh's destruction of the monstrosity Huwawa and the Bull of Heaven and a fifth, ineffectively protected one clearly depicts his demise and memorial service.
Subject: English
Level: High School
Keywords: Epic poetry, Basic Feather of Epic, Characteristics
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