To understand this phrase you have to analyze it in pieces.
Courtier is a word to describe a person that goes to the court to present, in this case, poetry. The court was the place where the powerful people (kings, princes, queens, royal governors...) of society would go to have a different kind of reunions and presentations.
Middling is a word that was used as a synonym for standard, regular. Here it means that the poet is not particularly bright, not all that talented.
Answer: Soto relates a story from his life to make a point about what it means to live in a multicultural society.
Explanation: In this excerpt of "Like Mexicans" by Gary Soto, he is describing how he felt embarrassed about holding hands with Carolyn in front of her family. He expresses that there are similarities and differences among the two cultures by stating "her people were like Mexicans, only different."
<span>He wanted to suggest that one should be willing to go to great lengths for a belief.</span>
<span>An example of a sentence that uses both the words 'drawbacks' and 'counterpoint' might be one relating to music, for example 'a drawback can be heard within the melody due to a miscommunication in the counterpoint'.
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I believe the answer you are looking for is A. beatifix:aesthete. Hope this helps!
Thanks!
~Steve
