Answer: Ashbery is considered the most influential poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in poetry, the standard tones of the age." Langdon Hammer, chair of the English Department at Yale University, wrote in 2008, "No figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John Ashbery" and "No American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, not Whitman, not Pound." Stephanie Burt, a poet and Harvard professor of English, has compared Ashbery to T. S. Eliot, calling Ashbery "the last figure whom half the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible".
Explanation:
The rhyme scheme is AA BB CC DD
explanation: Because lines 1 and 2 rhyme at the end (cries/eyes)
3 and 4 also rhyme (hills/daffodils), but with each other and not 1 and 2, so they are not A, but B. Same with the following lines, but using new rhymes, so they also get new letters as it makes new rhymes.
Answer:
The Dark Continent
Explanation:
They viewed Africa as a mysterious place unknown to them.
Question: Which part of a text is most helpful in determining an author's tone/attitude?
Answer choices:
1. The author's specific word choice and punctuation details
2. The authors age
3. Where the text was written
4. The authors biography
Correct answer: choice 1
Explanation: An author's word choice and punctuation can help you find what tone the text was intended to be interpreted because certain tones will omit or include different things. Such as a serious/informational tone will include big, complex words and not a lot of exclamation points.
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