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1. English
Edmund Spenser is English. He varied the traditional Shakespearean English sonnet form by changing the rhyme scheme which creates couplet links that connect the quatrains together.
2. abab bcbc cdcd ee
Spenserian sonnets repeat the last rhyme as the first rhyme of the next quatrain. This continuation of a rhyme from quatrain to quatrain ties them together more than previous sonnet forms.
3. lasting love
The poet uses phrases like "endure for ever" and "naught but death can sever" to show how long love can last.
4. metaphor
He is comparing the burning oak to the patience it takes when wooing. He does not use like or as which would indicate a simile. Also, the oak is not being given human traits which is required for personification.
5. knot
He compares the depth of love to a knot so tightly tied and tangled that it cannot be undone.
Answer:
<u>formed with -self or -selves that refers to the subject.</u>
Explanation:
Reflexive pronouns end in -self or -selves. They refer back to the subject forms of personal pronouns (underlined in the example below):
<em>We didn’t decorate it ourselves. Someone else did it for us.</em>
Answer:
42
Explanation:
This brings us back to Deep Thought’s answer. Deep Thought answers in the only language it knows, it says “42” giving life an equivalent meaning to that of a variable or wildcard. In essence, Deep Thought is saying that the meaning of life is whatever you want it to be. 42 = life is what you make of it.
Assuming the drop-down menu contained the following choices:
A. human beings continue to exist after death in the form of souls
B. no remnant of human life can exist after death
C. human beings continue to exist after death through the people they knew
D. some remnant of human life continues to exist after death
E. the human soul is unchangeable and immortal
F. the remains of the dead are absorbed into the soil and continue to nourish life
G. the soul and consciousness continue to exist in other living beings
<em>H. the human soul is not immortal in any way</em>
The answer is: "Walt Whitman suggests that some remnant of human life continues to exist after death (D) because the remains of the dead are absorbed into the soil and continue to nourish life (F)."
In this section of the poem, Whitman explains that the whole land and its people are connected even after death, because death is only a passage from one form to another: "there is really no death, / And if ever there was it led forward life."
Earlier in "Song of Myself," he mentions the grass which grows on top of the dead's graves; while in this passage, he declares very clearly that people continue to live in the grass: "They are alive and well somewhere," in "the smallest sprouts."
