Throughout the text "The Open Boat" Crane vividly describes the ocean. He speaks of it's constant movement, change in colors, and temperature. The ocean is the biggest adversary to the men in the boat. They are trying to survive the ocean's constant attempts to sink them and pull them away from land. In this story, the setting is also the antagonist.
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<span>[O say what stranger cause, yet unexplor'd,
Could make a gentle Belle reject a Lord?]
The poet is wondering why a girl would ever reject a man who is hitting on her and wants to marry her. It is implied that women had no say in this - that their marriage depended solely on the man and that they couldn't choose at all. The entire poem is quite satirical and meant to mock these kinds of ideas and behaviors.
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Without the word “the” it sounds like john is kicking the sport itself not the ball. When using “the” its saying john is specifically kicking the ball
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