Heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
At the beginning of "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," King says that he usually does not take the time to respond to or answer criticism of his work because if he did, he and his secretaries would be forever busy and he would not get any real work done. During the time of his activism, King had many detractors--here in "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," he is being criticized by fellow clergymen who think that...
Answer:
B. Ray Bradbury.
Explanation:
The line <em>"Friends departing to take up a post on Mars"</em> is from the poem "Post Early for Space" by Peter J. Henniker-Heaton where the speaker talks of settling into other planets and invading beyond the earth. He compares this to the American settlers, setting sights onto new directions.
The idea that man will soon settle on Mars and set up homes had already been written about by Ray Bradbury in his 1950 novel "The Martian Chronicles". In it, he describes an expedition to the red planet and how man inhabited the planet, eventually moving their families from Earth to Mars. Thus, this idea of <em>"tak[ing] up a post on Mars"</em> is related to Bradbury's fictional novel.
Therefore, the correct answer is option B.
