Answer:
What the speaker means in the second stanza is:
B) These are the metaphorical methods with which he feeds his hatred.
Explanation:
This question refers to the poem "A Poison Tree", by William Blake. The poem revolves around the speaker's wrath against his enemy.
In the second stanza, the speaker metaphorically describes how he feeds his hatred:
<em>And I waterd it in fears,
</em>
<em>Night & morning with my tears:
</em>
<em>And I sunned it with smiles,
</em>
<em>And with soft deceitful wiles.</em>
<u>Here, the speaker compares his wrath to a plant, which he waters with his tears. Plants also need sunshine to grow, which is given by the speaker in the form of smiles and deceitful wiles. The speaker is revealing the duplicity of his behavior and personality. He smiles at his foe, deceiving him into believing that everything is OK between them. All the while, however, he keeps on feeding his hatred. Eventually, it will grow into a poison tree and will kill the speaker's enemy.</u>
Part A: The correct answer is first statement. The major
theme of “Harrison Bergeron” written by Kurt Vonnegut is that close-minded
people are a threat to beauty, individuality, and self-expression. In this short
story, Kurt wanted to present that total equality isn’t always good by creating
a dystopia in which, to achieve equality, close-minded people are targeting
intelligent, strong and beautiful people and strip them of their extraordinary
characteristics. Those who represent individualism are being handicapped by Handicapper
General so that others won’t feel inferior.
Part B: Evidence from the text that best represents answer
in part A is the second one. By describing how hard government is working to
make everyone equal, Vonnegut is directing reader’s attention on the concept of
dystopian society to show how cruel it can be on those with “extraordinary
characteristics”. Close-minded people feel inferior to individualists and by
trying to be equal to them they treat their beauty, intelligence and strength,
instead of trying to achieve more.
this is a really simple awnser but nobody gets it right it is 3 4 and 5
C, subpoints. Hoped I helped!