The poem is about the winter landscape and the arrival of spring.
Explanation:
- The speaker stops by a landscape during winter. The speaker provides descriptions of "broad muddy fields browning with dried weeds." The repetition of the color brown continues and the speaker comments on "dead brown leaves" hanging from the trees.
- The poet uses noun phrases in the poem. leaves are “dead” and the vines “leafless.”
- The poet uses personification and spring is personified as "sluggish" and "dazed". He says the spring enters like a foreiger and says how the landscape changes. The environment is described as a "naked" newborn fresh from the womb arriving into a confusing world.
The correct answer is <span>C. feared powerful political groups but believed that individual men can be reasonable and responsible.
Swift was against various political organizations because he believed they were corrupted and they tried to corrupt individuals as well. He believed that people themselves weren't bad, it's just when given power and a chance to control others, they would eventually turn corrupt. His thought was that individuals could also be powerful, whilst retaining their senses, which he did not think was possible in groups.
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Answer:
D. He doesn't always agree with the choices of who is honored by the public.
Explanation:
This excerpt is from Jonathan Swift's (1667 – 1745) satirical article "A Modest Proposal" - <em>for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick.</em>
Option C states almost the same thing as in option D. But option D better explains the situation.
There is also a sharp sense of satire in author's usage of words "fair, cheap and easy". Jonathan Swift's satire is aimed toward government whose policies even in matters of such great importance are economy centered.
The correct answer is A) the author wants the reader to admire Rosa’s selflessness.
<em>Based on the character of Rosa, the reader can infer of the author’s unstated meaning that the author wants the reader to admire Rosa’s selflessness.
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We are referring to an excerpt of <em>“Saving the Thrift Store: A Drama</em>”, written by Lee Washington.
In the excerpt, Rosa is having a dialogue with Louis and Eddie. Rosa says “It is a shame that I am the youngest in my family, since I’d be happy to pass my old clothes to kids who wanted them”. She listens to her friends and she adds “That thrift store had a great selection of inexpensive clothes. Postponing a reopening is bad for the families that rely on that store.”
When reading those excerpts, based on the character of Rosa, the reader can infer of the author’s unstated meaning that the author wants the reader to admire Rosa’s selflessness.
