Does this question have the following list of options to choose from?
to protest the war
to demonstrate his love of country
to prove his political activism
<span>to ensure he would not get drafted
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If so, then the answer would be the third one. Goines is using satire, a type of <span>writing, making fun of human behavior to condemn it or find some social change. He uses this type of writing so as to have the people/ reader think about the war more critically.</span>
<span>1) The speaker pleads with his mistress to let him touch her and to lose her virginity to him.
2) She is being coy because they aren't married, and being sexually involved with him would stain her honor as a woman.
3) If they lived for eons, it would be OK for her to put him off. He would use the eons to love her from a distance. But their lives are short. Therefore, she should enjoy physical love with him.
4) Vegetable love wouldn't be physically active like an animal; it would grow in one place instead.
5) "Like amorous birds of prey, rather at once our time devour" describes a fierce, active, physical love.
6) "Roll all our strength and all our sweetness up into one ball" suggests they should be so close they are one.
7) "Deserts of vast eternity" don't contain any physical satisfaction.
8) The sun stands for time. Time will pass and they will die; they have no control over that. This is expressed by "we cannot make our sun stand still".
9) The poet urges her to "carpe diem" or "seize the day".
10) Acting on physical desire means being truly alive for him.</span>
The door creaked and a rectangle of light fell onto the magazine that I was reading. I looked up to a boy who had come into the lobby was a stranger, about nineteen, tall and thin.
"Looking for someone?" I asked.
"No," the boy said. His long fingers trembled as they fumbled with the buttons of his coat.
"Well, may I help you with something?"
"No." The boy dropped his coat onto the worn tweed sofa and sat down slowly. In the light from the window his pale cheeks gleamed as if wet.
He's sick, I thought, while walking over to him. A narrow hand reached out and seized my wrist, cold, strong fingers twining around my arm like vines or snakes. I try to fight the impulse to pull away, looking down instead into the boy's troubled, grey eyes.
<span> People believed food processing was scientific and therefore better.
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