Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.Say not that thousands are gone, turn out your tens of thousands;
The far and the near, the home counties and the back, the rich and the poor, will suffer or rejoice alike. The heart that feels not now is dead; the blood of his children will curse his cowardice, who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them happy.
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a stanza is a group of lines in a poem
Answer:
A. As a contrast to the situation in the speakers neighborhood.
Explanation:
His neighbor resided on top of his apartment. Her notes were evidently wrong, and she shrieked. He acquired a sound system to drown and contradict her "music." He realized he missed the music he heard only after moving to a new apartment.
Ralph Ellison understood music's power. He understood that music may remind us of our history, who we were, and our goals. It is also an escape. It helps drown out life's difficulties, as he did his neighbor's terrible letters. Music not only soothes, but also resurrects and enlivens.
The protagonist does not depend on adults to solve problems