Problem
In his work, Fear and Trembling, the 19th Century Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard offers this assessment of the poet and his, her or their relationship with the hero: "The poet cannot do what that other [i.e., the hero] does, he can only admire, love and rejoice in the hero. Yet he too is happy, and not less so, for the hero is as it were his better nature, with which he is in love, rejoicing in the fact that this after all is not himself, that his love can be admiration. He is the genius of recollection, can do nothing except call to mind what has been done, do nothing but admire what has been done; he contributes nothing of his own, but is jealous of the entrusted treasure". Both The Epic of Gilgamesh and Homer's The Odyssey challenge this assessment of the relationship between hero and poet. Briefly explain how they do so. a paragraph or two explanation will be good.