Falling in love can be the theme. You can deduce from the story that no matter how bad things can get, there will always be someone that will be able to lift up your spirit again. You just have to be patient.
==>True to this case the speaker of the poem is falling in love to a woman after being hurt by the sounds of things.<span> </span>
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its the one you marked
helps us learn a topic by explaining it in order
Shirley Jackson told: "the idea for "The Lottery" had come to me while I was pushing my daughter up the hill in her stroller—it was, as I say, a warm morning, and the hill was steep, and besides my daughter, the stroller held the day’s groceries—and perhaps the effort of that last 50 yards up the hill put an edge to the story.”
Explanation:
"The Lottery" is a short story written by Shirley Jackson in which members of a small community join together every year to follow a tradition according to which, randomly, the destiny of one of them is decided. The raffler winner is stoned to the dead to ensure prosperity for the whole village. The title is a clear instance of irony.
Predict means to "guess beforehand" so I'd say forecast.
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Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; ←→ The speaker personifies and diminishes the power of death.
She is all states, and all princes I, Nothing else is. Princes do but play us; compared to this, All honor's mimic, all wealth alchemy. ←→ The beloved is like the entire world to the lover.
If they be two, they are two so As stiffe twin compasses are two, Thy soule the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other doe.<---> The lover and his beloved are described as separate but connected, like a drawing tool.
And sacrilege, three sins in killing three. Cruel and sudden, hast thou since Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence Wherein could this flea guilty be, ←→ The speaker chides his beloved for killing the flea
