I have a writing intensive assignment , write 3 to 5 pages on //// 14.Compare and contrast the following lines from Homer, Dante, and Virgil: Homer, The Iliad , Book 6, ll. (Volume 1. 16) As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground but the live timber Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning So one generation of man will grow while another dies. Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 6, ll. 57-61 (Volume 2. 87) As leaves that yield their hold on boughs and fall Through forests in the early frost of autumn, Or as migrating birds from the open sea That darken heaven when the cold season comes And drives them overseas to sunlit lands. There all stood begging to be first across And reached out longing hands to the far shore. Dante, The Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto III, ll. (Volume 2.251) As leaves in autumn loosen and stream down until the branch stands bare above its tatters spread on the rustling ground, so one by one the evil seed of Adam in its Fall cast themselves, at his signal, from the shore and streamed away like birds who hear their call.