Explanation:
The poem opens with the poet watching the deserted South Boston Aquarium, which he had visited as a child. The ruined building is symbolic both of his lost childhood and of the decay of Boston, undergoing massive urban renewal, which upsets such milestones as the Statehouse and the sculpture of Colonel Shaw.
The statue causes the poet to think of Shaw, an abolitionist’s son and leader of the first black regiment in the Civil War. Shaw died in the war, and his statue is a monument to the heroic ideals of New England life, which are jeopardized in the present just as the statue itself is shaken by urban renewal.
Images of black children entering segregated schools reveal how the ideals for which Shaw and his men died were neglected after the Civil War. The poem’s final stanzas return to the aquarium. The poet pictures Shaw riding on a fish’s air bubble, breaking free to the surface, but in fact, the aquarium is abandoned and the only fish are fin-tailed cars.
This poem is a brilliant example of Lowell’s ability to link private turmoil to public disturbances. The loss of childhood in the early section of the poem expands to the loss of America’s early ideals, and both are brought together in the last lines to give the poem a public and private intensity.
The poem is organized into unrhymed quatrains of uneven length, allowing a measure of flexibility within a formal structure.
The answers is d)parallelism because the whole sentence is in the same format.
I think the primary audience for this essay is the people who are trying to fit in. In her essay, Kingsolver had experience social isolation because of her clothes or fashion sense. She had tried to follow the fashion trends so that the present society will accept her.
I think people wanted to be accepted by the culture that is presented. Kingsolver knows how it was like to be isolated from social conformity. That is why she had hoped that her daughter would not experience what she has experience.
Kingsolver encourages people to be unique and be themselves. She believes that you don't have to be "in" to be accepted. It is better to be you than to pretend to be someone else. She believes that everyone is unique and should also project themselves through their creativity.
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Explanation:
Sara Teasdale's poem was an inspiration for Bradbury's story of the same name. In part, he includes the poem as tribute to Teasdale, but more importantly, because it underlines his main theme or message: that humankind should exercise more humility and care in its use of technology.
I'd go with the last one because the others don't make sense at all.
