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Even in the not-officially-segregated North, there was often a wide gulf between the color-blindness of the American dream and the racial discrimination in daily life, which, early in their lives, crushed the aspirations and dashed the hopes of promising young black Americans. In this story (published in 1941), celebrated poet, novelist, and playwright Langston Hughes (1902–67) describes such an incident in the life of a talented and proud American high school student, Nancy Lee Johnso
The answer is A and C combined so final answer is D
Edgar can be a tricky man, but he is speaking of a lover that is no longer around. His lover is mentioned in stanza one, he feels that all is lost.
anyways the answer you're looking for here is that ; The speaker's love was unrequited
The central ideas would be that the author has proved his point that no one in this world would be born and reached the top of a success without spending an enormous time of practice which would be -- 10,000 hours.... His other central idea would be that according to him, as the psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, innate talent plays a smaller role but rule preparation or practice plays a bigger role to succeed.
