The metaphor for life in this poem is a game of Monopoly with no winner. The poem describes a situation in which, through the process of trying to beat out the other competitors in the game, no player ultimately wins (see the "Crabs in a Bucket" metaphor for a similar idea).
The answer is b. silent support allows a person to think for themselves and not go off of another person's feelings. It increases their individuality
Synonym : dependency, reliance
Antonym : independence<span>, </span>independency<span>, </span>self-dependence<span>, </span>self-reliance<span>, </span>self-sufficiency<span>, </span><span>self-support
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B is the answer, his fear of the cat.
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I did not, for some weeks, strike, or otherwise violently ill-use it; but gradually—very gradually—"I came to look upon it with unutterable loathing", and to "flee silently from its odious presence", as from the breath of a pestilence.</span>
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The anger comes from the misplaced objectives of both North and South. No party, according to this speech, was willing enough to see peace as a worthwhile alternative to a war that was inevitable given what each thought. This thought comes at the end of paragraph 2.
The history of the Bible's response to this kind of thing is put there to shift a proper religious interpretation of what the war actually meant, and what prayer actually accomplished, and how a loving God would respond to such prayer.
The shift is absolutely concluded right at the beginning of the next paragraph, It, in fact, begs the nation to seek healing. Lincoln hopes that the war will be put away quickly and the union will once again be one.
