The correct answer is the second one “an absence of love or passion.” In the poem, the general intention of the author is to describe his feelings about the love/passion that it is leaving his life. The sentence “dead leaves and snow”, is the way in which he introduces the absence feeling that he is going through. The birds, as well as the leaves of the tree, are metaphors of love, which are abandoning the tree (his life).
Answer:
1. I 2. F 3. F 4. F 5. I 6. I 7. F
Explanation:
In the final ten lines of the poem Il Penseroso, the poet aspires to a revelation of devine knowledge to inspire his great poetry. He will devote himself to solitude, contemplating. Among these lines he speaks about sitting in a "peacful hermitage" where "rightly spell" may refer to attachment to natural madic and an interest i the new search for an accurate scientific language. He wants to know and understand nature.
Machiavelli turns his attention to the rules effects his ruin than his preservation; for a man who wishes to act entirely up to his professions of virtue soon meets with what destroys him among so much that is evil. When this is done correctly, he is "reproached" by his people but not "hated.
Answer: I heard it was c but not 100% sure
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