In "it is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free," Wordsworth is walking with his young daughter one evening.
While walking, Wordsworth is filled with deep thoughts. Based on his words, however, it appears his daughter is not. He says, "If thou appear untouched by solemn thought" to indicate that, unlike himself, his daughter is not contemplating all sorts of deep thoughts while walking in nature.
However, he says that just because she is not engaged in deep thought, her "nature is not therefore less divine." He means that she is just as spiritual as he is even if she is not having spiritual thoughts about nature.
To summarize, when in nature, Wordsworth has deep, spiritual thoughts; his daughter, on the other hand, does not.
At the end of "Notes of a Native Son", Baldwin's argument that resolves one of his central ideas is C. That hatred or acceptance are choices one must make.
Upon his father's death, Baldwin had a sort of epiphany: he was finally able to understand the meaning behind the words his father had preached for so many years. He comes to the conclusion that to choose to be bitter, to choose to hate, is an unintelligent choice: "But I knew that it was folly, as my father would have said, this bitterness was folly. It was necessary to hold on to the things that mattered."
He then moves on to the last paragraph concerning the two ideas a person can hold in their mind: total acceptance and non-acceptance. Total acceptance means conformity, seeing "injustice as a commonplace" and living as if nothing can or should be done, for things will never change. On the other hand, however, non-acceptance is never taking injustice as commonplace, it is fighting it.
Such fight, however, must not be carried out with hatred, since hatred destroys the one who hates as well. As Baldwin says, "it had now been laid to my charge to keep my own heart free of hatred and despair." No other person could have made that decision but himself. However opposite the ideas may sound, he chose to not accept and to not hate.
Chaucer's descriptions from "The Monk's Tale" which best illustrates Fortune as deceitful is,
"Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?'
The Monk tale is a series of tragedies which represents the news that the wealth and position is just an illusion. He refers through the example of many falling from high to low ends, such as the example of Lucifer falling from heaven. Through such example and stories, he continues to show the people who have fallen from grace.
Model of tragedies which Monk offers is a Boethian one that is which is a reminder of the versatility of the life itself, to bring on top to those who are crashing down on the grounds and that the tendency of the feminine, whimsical fortune to spin her wheels. Hence, it is a simple narrative and Boethian reminder that high status often ends inadequately.
<span>Dainty is a positive synonym for small as it implies that the individual is small in a demure fashion. The other words carry a negative connotation and are reductive in some fashion or another.</span>
Answer:
C. “'I expect it was the spaniel...'”
Explanation:
This is the phrase which contributes most to the humour in the story. In this story, the niece is talking about the reason for a person to "lose his nerve." The first words she utters blame a cocker spaniel for this insanity. This is a humorous idea, as the reason seems to be unusual and trivial, and unlikely to have such an effect on a person.
