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"Read the following excerpt from "Madam and the Rent Man" by Langston Hughes.
He said, Madam,
I ain't pleased!
I said, Neither am I.
So we agrees!
The poet chooses to use slang in this stanza because it
A.reflects the way people really spoke, which makes the poem more realistic. B.avoids using informal language, which is not appropriate for poems. C.provides a standard rhyme within the stanza, which makes the poem easier to understand. D.shows a bond between Madam and the rent man that suggests they will resolve their differences.
Answer:
A. reflects the way people really spoke, which makes the poem more realistic.
Explanation:
When the poet decided to use slang in the poem, he wanted to establish a language closer to the readers, so he decided to write in a more informal tone and using common words from the daily lives of people.
This, in addition to bringing the text closer to the reader, allows the reader to read something in a more familiar and realistic language, increasing their understanding of the work.
Sylvia runs home with dollar signs in her eyes but realizes that she physically can't "tell the heron's secret and give its life away" (2.13). It's never explicitly stated why she does this, but we'd peg her obvious love of nature as Exhibit A and her intense experience atop the oak tree as Exhibit B (for more on this tree experience, check out the "Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory" section—there's more there than meets the eye).
Although Sylvia remains in the forest, she never forgets the hunter, nor is she ever quite sure that she's made the right choice. Although Sylvia is a proto-hippie country gal at heart, she knows that the hunter represented a very different path her life could've taken, and as the story ends, she still wonders where it might have taken her. It doesn't exactly reek of regret, but seems more like a sort of forlorn daydream about what might have been. But hey—we all do that sometimes.
The answer is B0 Each line is the same length, with the same meter.
