The speaker in the poem "The first lesson" is C. a parent.
The poem tells a story about a parent and his daughter in a pool or some other water, and the parent is teaching his kid how to swim. Of course, the whole poem is a metaphor - it's not really about swimming, but an important lesson that a parent has to teach his child about life itself.
Answer: Part A: D
Part B: A
Explanation:
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In these sentences, the point the author is trying to make is that nature does not care whether plants, animals, or humans live or die.
The overall theme of "The Trail of Meat" is nature, and while the winter itself may have made the journey nearly impossible, the author hints at nature's indiscriminatory behavior against anything with movement, "... It is not the way of the Wild to like movement. Life is an offence to it, for life is movement; and the Wild aims always to destroy movement. "
