Answer:
In the first lines of the poem the speaker begins by creating several unusual and engaging phrases that state that things are “famous”. The first explains that the “river is famous to the fish”. This might take some analysis to figure out, but, it makes sense to consider the importance of the river in the life of a fish. It’s what they live in and very likely thinks about all the time. It’s the most important thing in their world.
The second “famous” line is different but not so much so that it isn’t related. This time, the speaker says that the “loud voice” is famous for the silence that it interrupts. After the first comparison, this one is easier. Without a “loud voice” the silence wouldn’t seem noteworthy. It needs to be interrupted to be noticed.
Nye uses personification and allusion in the next lines. She alludes to a line from the Bible, “the meek will inherit the earth” in order to cast “silence” in the same light. She is effectively saying that “silence” is meek, a human character trait given to something that’s not human. The silence knew, somehow, that it would inherit the earth long before it was written in the Bible.
Lines 5-9
The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds
watching him from the birdhouse.
Explanation:
The meeting between Washington and Phillis Wheatley allowed him to understand slavery deeply through Phillis Wheatley's explanation that he lived in this violent and oppressive system.
<h3>Who was Phillis Wheatley?</h3>
- She was the first African-American poet.
- She was taken to America as a slave when she was 7 years old.
- She worked as a slave and suffered all the problems that racism and prejudice could promote.
Phillis Wheatley's work addressed the violence of slavery and the oppression that blacks lived in America. She had the property to talk about this subject, as she had lived it since her childhood.
For this reason, she was able to show Washington how his views on slavery and race were wrong and needed to be changed.
More information about Phillis Wheatley at the link:
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If you had shared the options It would have been much easier for me to answer in suitable form for you. But actually I have got the answer and do hope it could help you. I am more than sure that the repetition of "nevermore" creates a unity of effect on longing. The only word that Rave knows and uses all the time to respond is "nevermore" so that it gives a circular sense to the poem.
