“The Buried Life” is a ninety-eight-line poem divided into seven stanzas of varying length with an irregular rhyme scheme. A monologue in which a lover addresses his beloved, the poem yearns for the possibility of truthful communication with the self and with others.
The first line evokes the banter of a loving couple, but it is immediately checked by the deeply sad feelings of the speaker. Troubled by a sense of inner restlessness, he longs for complete intimacy and hopes to find it in his beloved’s clear eyes, the window to her “inmost soul.”
As the second stanza suggests, not even lovers can sustain an absolutely open relationship or break through the inhibitions and the masks that people assume in order to hide what they really feel. Yet the speaker senses the possibility of greater truth, since all human beings share basically the same feelings and ought to be able to share their most profound thoughts.
In a burst of emotion, expressed in two intense lines, the speaker wonders whether the same forces that prevent people from truly engaging each other must also divide him and his beloved.
The fourth stanza suggests that direct contact is possible only in fugitive moments, when human beings suddenly are aware of penetrating the distractions and struggles of life and realize that their apparently random actions are the result of the “buried stream,” of those unconscious drives that motivate human...
Answer:
The correct answer is D) Since fossil fuels are dirty and pollute the air and water, other technologies that pollute less and produce energy have been developed like solar energy and green buildings.
Explanation:
It summarizes the main points of Paragraph 3 so that is why D is the correct answer. Hope this helps:)
I wake up in the morning to the smell and sound of rain. I look over to my dog bed and say “good morning Delilah” as I start to stretch. A few minutes later I walk down stairs to see every thing covered in rain as I turn around and start to make coffee. I walk to the fridge to get my creamer and have a great idea to make a omelette this morning. When the coffee is done brewing I pour myself some in a mug and slowing our in the perfect amount of creamer. While I let it cool down I go back to the fridge and grab everything I need for a omelette. I start to crack the eggs and cut up the tomatoes and in 15 minutes my coffee is the perfect temperature and my omelette is ready.
