<span>1) B. Greeting yourself is a paradoxical image. One greets others.
2) C. In "Love on Love" the writer uses paradox to support the theme of healing the wounds from a broken heart. After all, you are alone in this poem. The author is asking you to, paradoxically again, "give back your heart". This, like the earlier greeting, means you will be giving your heart back to yourself; presumably because you gave it to someone else before.</span>
<span>Mora includes the poem in her speech to encourage her audience to remember their family history.
Mora's speech is about immigrants who want to blend into the new society so much that they completely delete their own family history and background. She is obviously against this, saying that we should be proud of where we come from and not try to eradicate every trace of our family history just to become Americanized.
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Gilbert is talking about the unavoidably of time and doom in this line
Explanation:
Gilbert here says that the sun is “dragging them all back toward the winter”
Here the symbols of sun and winter are important to understand as well as the symbol of dragging.
The sun is a symbol of time as it is the harbinger of the new day and is the way people know that the time is passing.
The winter can also mean desolation and death too as the end of life is considered the winter of life.
Thus Gilbert here is talking about the inevitability of death in the world with this metaphor of time.
The theme of success and failure is examined through Mitty's inability to live a fulfilling external life, which causes him to retreat to an internal life full of images of conquest. Walter Mitty is neither exciting nor successful in his everyday life. In fact, the world Mitty lives in seems hellish to him
