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Both W. H. Auden and William Carlos Williams wrote ekphrastic poems about Pieter Brueghel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. Both poems point out that Icarus’s drowning is ignored or goes unnoticed. Williams's poem uses short groups of three lines and an objective tone. Auden's poem uses longer lines and more description, and it refers to ideas and images outside of the painting. Williams provides a matter-of-fact account of what happens in the painting, while Auden connects the painting to the overall idea of suffering.
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The excerpt from the poem that suggests the inevitability of the result Okonkwo fears is "The ceremony of innocence is drowned; "
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The biggest fear of Okonkwo is to see the traditions and beliefs as well as the kind of life that mane ancestors preserved in African villages doomed because of modernization and influence of cities and the new kind of life, the sentence "The ceremony of innocence is drowned " talks about how this invasion is destroying everything that was natural and sacred.
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"brings tears to my eyes"
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That phrase would be considered an emotional bias from the author ("brings tears") and is referring to themselves (using "my"), which is looked down upon in academic tone.
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“Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song”
“the ear that doth thy lays esteem”
“gives thy pen both skill and argument”
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In the sentence: <span>Long ago, builders erected the Great Wall of China to keep out invaders, in which the underlined word is the "Great Wall of China", it specifies the direct object.
</span>Direct objects<span> can be nouns, pronouns, phrases, or clauses. If you can identify the subject and verb in a sentence, then finding the </span>direct object<span>—if one exists—is easy.</span>
