Why has the poet compared imagination to a soaring bird in this excerpt from the poem "On Imagination" by Phillis Wheatley? Imag
ination! who can sing thy force? Or who describe the swiftness of thy course? Soaring through air to find the bright abode, Th' empyreal palace of the thund'ring God, We on thy pinions can surpass the wind, And leave the rolling universe behind: From star to star the mental optics rove, Measure the skies, and range the realms above. There in one view we grasp the mighty whole,
for plato users: C. The imagination has no bounds beyond the limit of one's own mind. a soaring bird is pictured to be free of limitations,retaining the ability to go where it pleases, and fly carefree as it does so, just as your imagination flows carefree, without limitations, going where you please it.
The poet compared imagination to a soaring bird because imagination is limitless, it can do anything and go anywhere, much like a soaring bird, who has the freedom and capabilites to do anything. Both are completely free of bounds.
Aunt Alexandra is Atticus's sister and Scout's and Jem's aunt. Aunt Alexandra is well-mannered, but can sometimes be very strict and bossy. She tries her best to make Scout into a proper young lady.
The major difference between a news story and a feature story is that a news story is time-sensitive. Media outlets want to publish news stories as quickly as possible after an event occurs. Feature stories, however, are not as time-dependent and contain no urgent content.
