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.
In G. K. Chesterton’s “The Fallacy of Success,” he ascribe to books and articles that claimed to give readers the secrets to achieving great wealth. The bottomline line of all those articles it's not cynicism nor mere business, but mysticism - the horrible mysticism of money.
A They were sung to heal sick people and to ask for such gifts as rain and good crops.
Explanation:
<u>Navajo songs were traditional songs that were considered spiritua</u>l and containing a wide variety of knowledge in them that would emanate as they are sung in the processions,
<u>So they were sung on special occasions and usually as offerings to the God, for rain or good crops or other such issues </u>that the people would take up in the annual community festivals.
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The narrator is preoccupied by a desire to travel.
The narrator spends many hours traveling by train.
The narrator is frustrated by the noise of travelers.
The narrator has fond memories of her travels.
Answer:
The narrator is preoccupied by a desire to travel.
Explanation:
In the poem "Travel," by Edna St. Vincent Millay, the speaker expresses an intense yearning for traveling. In fact, she is so obsessed and absorted in her dreams and eagerness about traveling, that during the day she can hear the whistle of a train. Besides, at night she cannot sleep but sees the train's "ciders red on the sky" and hears the sound of a steaming engine. Thus, she has a fascination with traveling, since she would take any train and go anywhere, and she believes she would make the best of friends.
