Answer and Explanation:
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" is the poem by Walt Whitman that made him a pioneer of free verse. <u>Free verse happens when a poem does not follow any rules for meter or rhyme schemes</u>. Let's take a look at the excerpt provided:
<em>Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt,</em>
<em>Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd,</em>
<em>Just as you are refresh’d by the gladness of the river and the bright flow, I was refresh’d,</em>
<em>Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood yet was hurried,</em>
<em>Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships and the thick-stemm’d pipes of steamboats, I </em>
<em>look’d.</em>
<u>Each line has a different length, so to speak. It is clear that Whitman had no concern for the number of syllables and the rhythm to be the same in each line. When we look at the last word or sound of the lines, we notice the same lack of concern for them to be similar or equal. We can tell there is the repetition of the phoneme /t/ at the end of each last word, but that is not enough to characterize rhyming. This is why this excerpt is a representative of free verse.</u>
B. only one that goes along with signing it
Answer:
Acts one and two are both set in someone's place of residence; act one is in Parris's house above the parish, and act two is in the Proctor household. In that sense, the setting is similar. They also are the scenes of various relationship strifes; in act one, Parris and Abigail fight, along with Abigail and her friends, and Abigail and Proctor, and then Proctor fighting with Parris and other assorted townsfolk--so, a lot of fighting goes on. In act two, John and Elizabeth fight a bit, and we see further conflict in their relationship. Mary Warren and Proctor fight, and then Proctor fights with the deputies that try to arrest Elizabeth and take her away. Another similarity between the scenes is that Reverend Hale is there, questioning people and trying to hunt down witchcraft--in act one, he questions Tituba, in act two, he questions the Proctors. One other comparison that can be made is that in both these acts, we see how the accusations start and get quite out of hand. As soon as Tituba is "off the hook" for "confessing" to be a witch, Abby and all of her friends jump on the bandwagon, and it spirals out of control. In act two, we see just how far out of control they have gotten. Both acts are very tense, anxious, contentious, and dramatic in their moods.
Some differences between the acts are that in act two, it starts off as a civil, if awkward conversation between husband and wife, that soon spirals into an argument and full expressions of bitterness and mistrust. However, we get to see a bit more of how the everyday functioning of their household works, and them at least trying to patch things up at the beginning. So the setting in act two at least starts off not being quite as dramatic; it is more personal and intimate. As Reverend Hale questions the couple the conversation is more logical and sound than that of the questioning occurring of Tituba in act one. Tituba's questioning was harried, rushed, forced, dramatic and intense.
Those are just some similarities and differences, and I hope that they help to get you thinking. Good luck!
Answer and Explanation:
The country mouse invited his friend, the City mouse to his abode. When they were eating, the City mouse was disappointed in the quality of the food because he was used to eating better meals, so he invited the Country mouse to go back home with him.
True to the City mouse's words, there were lots of good food to eat but each time they settled down to eat, they were interrupted till the Country mouse got fed up and said he preferred eating his meal in peace, no matter how inferior it was than being constantly interrupted.
The theme of the story is contentment.