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In "The Song of the Mud," what is the most significant aspect of war represented by mud?

Studentka2010 [4]

Answer:

The most significant aspect of war represented by mud is:

C. the power of war to strip individuals of value

Explanation:

"The Song of Mud" is a poem by author Mary Borden. The speaker talks of the mud in a contrasting way. The mud is slimy, unwelcome, yet beautiful. It covers everything and everyone - hills, clothes, guns. It creates a new style, a new fashion. It stops things, thus stopping war. However, and this is the most significant aspect talked of in the poem, mud swallows the bodies of the men who died at war.

The problem here is not mud. Mud is not guilty of killing those great and honorable men - war is. War has stripped them of their value, forcing them to die away from home, to be buried by mud in such a way no one will ever find them - as if they never existed. Men who could have been with their families, enjoying the little perks and difficulties of life, are now rotting in the mud, as if their lives were worth nothing:

This is the hymn of mud-the obscene, the filthy, the putrid,

The vast liquid grave of our armies. It has drowned our men.

Its monstrous distended belly reeks with the undigested dead.

Our men have gone into it, sinking slowly, and struggling and slowly disappearing.

Our fine men, our brave, strong, young men;

Our glowing red, shouting, brawny men.

Slowly, inch by inch, they have gone down into it,

Into its darkness, its thickness, its silence.

Slowly, irresistibly, it drew them down, sucked them down,

And they were drowned in thick, bitter, heaving mud.

Now it hides them, Oh, so many of them!

Under its smooth glistening surface it is hiding them blandly.

There is not a trace of them.

There is no mark where they went down.

The mute enormous mouth of the mud has closed over them.

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Which of these names would be listed first in a telephone directory?

tankabanditka [31]

second choice

Explanation:

Alphabetical order

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Either she or you ______to wash the plate a)has b)have c) were d) was

MatroZZZ [7]

Answer: Has (A)

Explanation: don't have much of an explanation its just what sounds right

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2 years ago

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Which revision best improves the language in this passage while leaving the original meaning intsct?

HACTEHA [7]

The best revision of the excerpt above about the use of Latin language in the modern culture would be "Learning Latin is still valuable today, because the language affected many modern English words, that have been passed down through the generations, including words, we use every day, like subject and progress."

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4 years ago

Recommend TWO intervention programmes the government could put into place to encourage tourists not litter.And also indicate how

galina1969 [7]

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

The two intervention programs that the government could put into place to encourage tourists, not to litter would be the following.

1.- Advertising campaign in the United States airports. As soon as tourists arrive in the United States, there would be TV screens and signs in every airport, informing that littering is strictly prohibited in the United States.

2.- US embassies abroad. A similar campaign should be implemented in the many US embassies around the world. So when people solicit their visas to enter the United States, they could be informed that there is strict legislation in the US regarding littering.

This way tourist will be informed previous their arrival to the country.

These recommendations will help the illegal dumping situation for tourists in that they will be very aware that there will be serious consequences if they are caught littering.

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3 years ago