“Concrete Mixers” by Patricia Hubbell compares concrete mixers to elephants to show humans have created relationships with their machines in much the same way as with animals under their care. The poet shows how the drivers of the concrete mixers wash and tend to their mixers just as the mahout take care of their elephants. This comparison is set up at the beginning of the poem with this simile: “Like elephant tenders they hose them down.” To continue this relationship, the poet describes the concrete drivers as “mahouts”, the name for people who take care of elephants in other countries. The poem also describes how the concrete mixers “stand in muck”, meaning that these machines are in muddy environments similar to the environments of elephants who stand in mud or muck.In the end the poet describes how the concrete mixers are like elephants working to do humans’ work by lifting, moving and helping to create new structures in a city. The poet uses several similes to describe concrete mixers as if they were alive: “Concrete mixers/Move like elephants/Bellow like elephants/Spray like elephants” She further strengthens the effect by writing that they “…are urban elephants/Their trunks are raising a city.” This metaphor means that just as elephants work for humans in
Poetry Collection 3 other countries, the machines in the poem are doing the labor of building a city. The poet uses the word “raising” to show that the city is being built up, becoming taller and taller with skyscrapers. Through the effective use of figurative language the poet shows how humans have begun to treat their machines as if they were living, breathing animal
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Answer:
The playwright wants the reader to understand that the main cause among the problems was the lack of communication and understanding among family members.
Explanation:
The excerpt presented in the question above is an excerpt from the play "A raisin in the sun" which features a family who received a large amount of money, which, despite changing their lives, proved that many problems affected all members of the family. These problems often become much bigger than what they should be due to the internal fights in the family, caused by the lack of communication, understanding and trust between the members. This is highlighted in the excerpt presented in the question above, where Walter, one of the main characters, feels uncomfortable with how the emotional distance between family members has affected everyone's lives.
Answer: A. must
Explanation:
<em>There's a lot of distraction coming from passing vehicles, Lena </em><em><u>must</u></em><em> close the door? </em>
The activities of the passing vehicles were a distraction to the speaker and so wanted Lena to close the door. The right way to say this is, ''...Lena must close the door.''
Answer:
The answer is the first one: they are not moving
Explanation:
It's a metaphor comparing the elk and stones
The underlined portion of this excerpt serves as the A. Claim for this section of Roosevelt’s argument.
<h3>What is a Claim?</h3>
This refers to the statement or assertion that is made about a particular situation that may be true or untrue until it is verified.
Hence, we can see that from the given text, there is the narration of the taxation and how it would be used for the defense program and how he did not want people to get rich off the program and this emphasizes his claim.
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