The house in "The Deserted House" is a metaphor for a dead body or dead person.
The poem opens with "life and thought have gone away" speaking of a person who has died and no longer has life or thoughts. It continues in Lines 1-3 describing the emptiness of the house, showing the stillness and emptiness of death.
In Line 4 "The house was builded of the earth, And shall fall again to ground." refers to a body being buried, similar to the common funeral phrase "from dust to dust"
Line 5 refers to the person in Heaven- "in a city glorious-- A great and distant city--have bought A mansion incorruptible." Incorruptible in this line means everlasting or unable to decay, showing that the person, (the "mansion") will stay there forever.
The poem ends with "Would they could have stayed with us!" in reference to the person who has died-wishing they had not "moved" to heaven and instead could have stayed alive.
<span>Which word is a conjunction in the following sentence?
The man quickly but carefully opened the oyster’s hard shell. (1 point)
A. quickly
B. but
C. carefully
D. opened</span>
These words have similar meanings, so the relationship between them is that they are "synonyms". Synonyms are words with similar meanings, and they can often be used interchangeably within a sentence. Other relationships could include antonyms, which are words with opposite meanings.
<span>The town has basically given up on the Ewells. They let Bob collect wefare and hunt out of season because the town does not want Ewell's kids to starve.</span>
