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Your questions is incomplete. The complete poem is:
An Arab Shepherd Is Searching For His Goat On Mount Zion
An Arab shepherd is searching for his goat on Mount Zion / and on the opposite hill I am searching for my little boy. / An Arab shepherd and a Jewish father / both in their temporary failure. / Our two voices met above / the Sultan’s Pool in the valley between us. / Neither of us wants the boy or the goat / to get caught in the wheels / of the “Chad Gadya” machine. / Afterward we found them among the bushes, / and our voices came back inside us / laughing and crying. / Searching for a goat or for a child has always been / the beginning of a new religion in these mountains.
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The whole text has cultural references. Mount Zion, by its use and historical significance, the "sultan's swimming pool", being a specific reference of an Arab culture and the Chad Gaya, for being a musical style. The Arab shepherd, however, enters more into the perspective of common sense, and could be seen, from an alternative perspective, as an emptiness of cultural meaning.
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Because they weren't there at the time it happened
Answer:
Well, a compund is putting two words together to create one. I don't see a compund owrd in this sentence. The closest word I see to being a compound word would be "slide off" but that would only be if it was written as "slide-off." Or it could be "started" because it has "start" and "ed" in it.
It could be "slide-off" or "started." I'm unsure.
Answer:
Because the old man's vulture eye tormented him and he had to rid himself of it forever.
Explanation:
A more developed answer might be, the narrator is unbalanced. Because he thinks he can hear the old man's heart, he thinks others can too. Therefore, he kills the old man to protect himself from being discovered.
In the first sentence (throughout) would be a preposition because it is describing where. In the second sentence (particularly) would be an adjective because it describes the painting. And last (is) is a verb in this sentence (it is a (be) verb)