Answer:
The narrator of the "A Shropshire Lad" is an unhappy and pessimistic young soldier.
Explanation:
Alfred Edward Housman's collection of poem "A Shropshire Lad" was narrated by a young but pessimistic soldier who had lost a lot of people. This is a collection of sixty- three poems that shows sacrifice of the Shropshire lads who had died while serving the Queen.
And added to their deaths, he is surrounded by the themes of death even in the poetry he reads. He talks of the sacrifice of these men, "<em>the land they perished for</em>" implying the patriotic zeal in the soldiers. It's as if the feeling and concept of death or dying is meant to be with him as long as he lives.
How does the phrase "a million mosquitoes" affect the passage?
A. It implies that there is a large amount of mosquitoes in the yard.
“A million something” (in this case mosquitoes) is an hyperbolic figure of speech used to imply a large or excessive amount of something. Option B about Jack not being a reliable narrator could have been a possible answer but the passage is written using a third-person point of view, so Jack is not a narrator.
Lin Manuel Miranda depicted majority of his cast as people of color. Most people of color were slaves when the founding fathers existed. Second, Alexander Hamilton’s stance on slavery was way different in history than it was in the musical. In history, Hamilton was a slave owner. In the musical, Hamilton was trying to end slavery.
Base on my own research and further understanding, I would say that the answer would be that they are important because the creature realizes upon reading paradise lost that he resembles Adam and Satan and that there are many parallels in their relationship to their creator and in his relationship to his creator.
Sidney addresses his sonnets to stella
