Answer: The audience for the essay Sojourner is every person that is interested in poetry-like and reflective essays. The purpose is to raise awareness of our roll on this planet, and how we are "the sojourners" in it. Annie Dillard uses metaphors such as comparing mangroves to humans, to convey the message.
Explanation: Annie Dillard speaks to a very general public, her audience is every person that would like to reflect on who we are for the world, and her purpose is to raise awareness on people through metaphors and allegories. She compares, for instance, mangroves to humans, saying that we are "the sojourners" on our planet, being nomads and not belonging anywhere, but she also refers to the planet itself as a sojourner.
The lines that describe the decline and fall of the city are the following:
- These wall-stones are wondrous — calamities crumpled them, these city-sites crashed, the work of giants corrupted.
- The roofs have rushed to earth, towers in ruins.
- The halls of the city once were bright: there were many bath-houses, a lofty treasury of peaked roofs, many troop-roads, many mead-halls filled with human-joys until that terrible chance changed all that.
- Days of misfortune arrived—blows fell broadly—
death seized all those sword-stout men—their idol-fanes were laid waste —the city-steads perished.
- This place has sunk into ruin, been broken into heaps,
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a: this homesick sailor is struggling to save his crewmen and himself
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option 1 is an opinion because it is not a fact. Option 2 is a fact therefore option 1 ( we would be lost with out English) is an opinion
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