I enjoy doing crossword puzzle from The New York Times.
Answer:
A connotative meaning is based on the emotions associated with a word, while a denotative meaning is based on a specific dictionary meaning. Hope this helps :).
Can you provide the story ?
Read these lines from the poem.
<em>And though I talked of wounds and smart, Love’s pleasures only touched my heart. </em>
How do these lines reflect the central idea that the speaker uses people in relationships?
The answer is:
(B) The lines show that the speaker only pretends to have feelings for others.
The speaker is talking about how he has enjoyed from relationships without compromise his heart pretending his feelings as we can observe from the line <em>"love's pleasures </em><em>only </em><em>touched my heart"</em> making reference he did not suffer of love. In addition, at the end he said <em>"Despise the fools that whine for love.", </em>it means that he never felt love for anyone.
So, he is just bragging his "thousand of beauties" thus reflecting the central idea that he uses people in relationships.
