The answer is covenants. The "Mayflower Compact" was marked on 11 November 1620 locally available the Mayflower not long after she came to grapple off Provincetown Harbor. The Pilgrims had gotten authorization from English experts to settle in Virginia, whose northern fringe at the time reached out up to what is presently New York.
The answer is that the author used the word willow to portray two different meanings by using the techniques of metaphor and personification.
- ''An old <u>willow</u> with hollow branches slowly swayed his few high tendrils and sang(...) >> Here the author used the technique of personification in order to explain that the branches performed the human action of dancing.
- ''Love is a young green <u>willow</u> (...)'' >> Here the author used the technique of metaphor to compare love to a green willow (Willows are associated with spirituality and the ability to bend without snapping, a methaphor that is commonly used in Celtic culture to teach that we must adjust to the situation/feeling instead of fighting against it)
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Tremulous means shaking or quivering; it also could mean timid
