Answer:
by referring to the effects of the Erie Canal
Explanation:
"As the water of the lakes found the salt sea when the Erie Canal was opened, so surely will quick communication seek and find this noble Bridge, and as the ships have carried hither and thither the products of the mighty West, so shall diverging railroads transport the people swiftly to their homes in the hospitable city of Brooklyn. The Erie Canal is a waterway through the land connecting the great West with the older East. This Bridge is a landway over the water, connecting two cities bearing to each other relations in some respects similar." It talks about and shows what Erie Canal did in comparison to the bridge.
Collins uses three metaphors to describe the speaker's feelings on turning ten, “a kind of measles of the spirit, / a mumps of the psyche, / a disfiguring chicken pox of the soul.” These metaphors are incredibly complex, using language that would not typically be associated with a ten year old.
Three meaningful lines in "The Leap" are as follows:
1."I owe her my existence three times."
2."My mother once said that I'd be amazed at how many things a person can do within the act of falling."
3."I know that she's right. I knew it even then. As you fall there is time to think."
4 and 7 reading it from top to bottom
