Explanation:
The poem opens with the poet watching the deserted South Boston Aquarium, which he had visited as a child. The ruined building is symbolic both of his lost childhood and of the decay of Boston, undergoing massive urban renewal, which upsets such milestones as the Statehouse and the sculpture of Colonel Shaw.
The statue causes the poet to think of Shaw, an abolitionist’s son and leader of the first black regiment in the Civil War. Shaw died in the war, and his statue is a monument to the heroic ideals of New England life, which are jeopardized in the present just as the statue itself is shaken by urban renewal.
Images of black children entering segregated schools reveal how the ideals for which Shaw and his men died were neglected after the Civil War. The poem’s final stanzas return to the aquarium. The poet pictures Shaw riding on a fish’s air bubble, breaking free to the surface, but in fact, the aquarium is abandoned and the only fish are fin-tailed cars.
This poem is a brilliant example of Lowell’s ability to link private turmoil to public disturbances. The loss of childhood in the early section of the poem expands to the loss of America’s early ideals, and both are brought together in the last lines to give the poem a public and private intensity.
The poem is organized into unrhymed quatrains of uneven length, allowing a measure of flexibility within a formal structure.
I believe the correct answer would be c.
Answer:
The star is personified as someone loved by the speaker.
Explanation:
'A Winter Twilight' is a poem written by Angelina Weld Grimke. The poem runs in eight-lines and one stanza. The poem is about a speaker who is observing winter time and her life.
The star in line 7 is personified as someone loved by the speaker. The speaker states that <em>'One star that I loved...' </em>love is an human emotion and is personified to the star. The speaker is saying that there was 'one star' in the sky whom the speaker loved. And love is an emotion showed to human beings but her it is epitomized on an nonhumane object- star.
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The poem seem to be celebrating the sight of a sun rising in the morning while mountain climbing. My answer for "part a" would be the first one (flowing light) because the 'yellow ribbons' represent the sun's rays. For "part b" my answer would once again be the first choice (It creates a powerful image of morning sunlight on the mountain range.) Because it the use of the phrase 'yellow ribbons cascade' is an emphasis of what the author deems a breath taking moment.
