Hey there!
What he means by foul and fair is that first of all, war is always foul. People die, and it can end in victory for one side, but they will undoubtedly suffer losses.
However, there's a specific reason for this war. It's a war based on a disagreement or argument, and war was the way it was settled.
A situation can be both foul and fair if it has equal pros and cons, like suffering losses but settling an argument.
Hope this helps!
I do not have enough information to answer this question... im sorry:( i think i would need the full passage to read and answer this
Answer:
B. "Why , my God! they used to go there by the hundreds."
Explanation:
The author uses irony in this phrase to express the surprise at Gatsby's funeral when it was realized that almost no one appeared at the funeral to bid him goodbye, but hundreds of people knew Gatsby, said they loved him, and were often seen at his party.
We can infer the following :
- Those men who gave their lives,did not die in vain""that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain (lines 18-21)""
- This war is betraying the ideals of the nation-he is saying that this war needs to come to a close.""lines 1 to 6: our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,conceived in liberty and dedicated to the..."""
Had to look for the missing details and here is my answer.
"For the Union Dead" is actually a book that was written by Robert Lowell. This book composes of a collection of poems. And based on the excerpt given taken from this book, what the author wants the reader to recognize as based on the start and end is that the Colonel Shaw's monument would be one day be destroyed and forgotten. Hope this helps.
