The Diary of Caroline Cowles Richards fell into my hands, so to speak, out of space. I had no previous acquaintance with the author, and I sat down to read the book one evening in no especial mood of anticipation. From the first page to the last my attention was riveted. To call it fascinating barely expresses the quality of the charm. Caroline Richards and her sister Anna, having early lost their mother, were sent to the home of her parents in Canandaigua, New York, where they were brought up in the simplicity and sweetness of a refined household, amid Puritan traditions. The children were allowed to grow as plants do, absorbing vitality from the atmosphere around them. Whatever there was of gracious formality in the manners of aristocratic people of the period, came to them as their birthright, while the spirit of the truest democracy pervaded their home. Of this Diary it is not too much to say that it is a revelation of childhood in ideal conditions.
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The incorrect usage of the singular possessive is found in the following option:
A. Icarus's fate was sealed when he approached the sun.
The problem is that it should be "Icarus' " - if the word ends with "s", you just add the apostrophe, not an additional S. (actually this is disputed, but it's the only problematic option among the options given)
B. Both poems compare man-made things to natural things. So that both of them deals with nature. They describe how the wildness and slovenliness could take over such vast area. Whatever you do in the nature, even if you want to change something, the things you do will return to the nature and stay in there, again. The objects which the authors write about in the poems show that the nature will dominate them with its power.
