The following text is from a 1798 poem The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth. The speaker is observing a girl reaping and singing alone in a field.Behold her, single in the field,Yon solitary Highland Lass!Reaping and singing by herself;Stop here, or gently pass!Alone she cuts and binds the grain,And sings a melancholy strain;Oh, listen! for the Vale profoundIs overflowing with the sound.10Mark for ReviewABCWhat is the main idea of the text?AThe speaker is captivated by the sight and sound of a girl reaping and singing alone.BThe speaker is inviting everyone to join the girl in the field.CThe speaker is teaching the girl how to cut and bind the grain.DThe speaker is complaining about the girl's singing disrupting the quiet valley.

Read this passage:That time of year thou mayst in me beholdWhen yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hangUpon those boughs which shake against the cold,Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 73"Which two things are being compared in the passage?A.Someone in the later stages of life and a tree that has lost its leavesB.A useless old tree and a healthy tree that provides a home for forest animalsC.The renewal of spring and the coming loss of autumnD.The beautiful music of a choir and the lovely song of the birds in the treesSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

“Lines Written in Early Spring” is a 1798 poem byWilliam Wordsworth. In the poem, the speakerdescribes having contradictory feelings whileexperiencing the sights and sounds of a springday: _______Which quotation from “Lines Written in EarlySpring” most effectively illustrates the claim?A) “Through primrose-tufts, in that sweet bower, /The periwinkle trail’d its wreathes; / And ’tis myfaith that every flower / Enjoys the air itbreathes.”B) “The budding twigs spread out their fan, / Tocatch the breezy air; / And I must think, do all Ican, / That there was pleasure there.”C) “The birds around me hopp’d and play’d: / Theirthoughts I cannot measure, / But the leastmotion which they made, / It seem’d a thrill ofpleasure.”D) “I heard a thousand blended notes, / While in agrove I [sat] reclined, / In that sweet mood whenpleasant thoughts / Bring sad thoughts to themind.”

Read this passage from “Lines to Grief” by Ann Eliza Bleecker.Come Grief, and sing a solemn dirge      Beneath this midnight shade;From central darkness now emerge,      And tread the lonely glade.How does the poet use sound devices in this passage?Please select all that apply.Group of answer choicesThe passage uses alliteration throughout to create a cheerful feeling.The passage uses stressed and unstressed syllables for a more prose-like effect.The passage uses consonance to create a mournful feeling.The passage uses rhyme for a rhythmic effect.

Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows like harmony in music; there is a dark inscrutable workmanship that reconciles discordant elements, makes them cling together. In one society. How strange that all. The terrors, pains, and early miseries, regrets, vexations, lassitudes interfused within my mind, should e’er have borne a part, and that a needful part, in making up. The calm existence that is mine when I am worthy of myself! Praise to the end!According to the poet, one can be worthy of oneself only when one has experienced the terrors and the pains of life and has grown above them to achieve a state of calmness.All the discordant elements in the poet’s life have gone into making him what he is now, and the calmness that he feels in the present is only because of having experienced the terrors in the past; this is what has made him a worthy human being.The mind fuses the past and the present in such a way that the calmness the poet feels at the moment is in a way amnesiac of the past; it is only because of this forgetfulness of the terrors of the past that the poet can be calm in the present. Dust we are and unto dust we will return; in the meanwhile, one must undergo all the pains and travails of life in order to become a worthy human being-- only then can one achieve a praiseworthy end.

What does the poem suggest about the longing for freedom and self-expression, as depicted by the caged bird?