"The Winds of Fate" One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. ’Tis the set of the sails An
d not of the gales Which tells us the way to go. Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate, As we voyage along through life; ’Tis the set of a soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox What is this poem about? a. The excitement of a sea voyage b. The way a person’s character guides life c. The power of the wind on sails d. The problems of living everyone encounters In “The Winds of Fate,” the poet compares a person’s life to a. a ship at sea. b. the wind. c. a ship’s sails d. the power of fate. According to this poem’s first stanza, what determines the direction of a ship? a. The sea b. The soul c. The sails d. The wind
By saying that the two locks of hair conspired to do something, the author is attributing a characteristic of human nature to the locks of hair which on fact are non living (or human) entities
