Which two lines or sets of lines in the poem suggest the preciousness of love? sonnet 12 by elizabeth barrett browning indeed this very love which is my boast, and which, when rising up from breast to brow, {doth crown me with a ruby large enow to draw men's eyes and prove the inner cost,—} this love even, all my worth, to the uttermost, {i should not love withal, unless that thou hadst set me an example,} shown me how, {when first thine earnest eyes with mine were crossed,} and love called love. {and thus, i cannot speak of love even, as a good thing of my own: } thy soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak, {and placed it by thee on a golden throne,—} and that i love (o soul, we must be meek! ) is by thee only, whom i love alone.

Select the contred text in the passage which sentence in this excerpt from john galsworthy's narrative essay "gone" reflects his view that there is no afterlife? an old woman and mrs. herd's sister were in the sitting-room, they showed us to the crazy, narrow stairway. though we lived distant but four hundred yards of a crows flight, we had never seen mrs. herd before, for that is the way of things in this land of minding one's own business a slight dark girlish-looking woman, almost quite refined away, and with those eyes of the dying, where the spirit is coming through, as it only does when it knows that al is over except just the passing. she lay in a double bed with clean white sheets. a white-washed room, so low that the ceiling almost touched our heads, some flowers in a bow, the small lattice window open. though it was hot in there, it was better far than the rooms of most families in towns, living on a wage of twice as much, for here was no sign of defeat in decency or cleanliness. in her face, as in poor herd's, was that same strange minging of resigned despair and almost eager appeal, so terrible to disappoint. yet, trying not to disappoint it, one felt guilty of treachery: what was the good, the kindness in making this poor bird flutter still with hope against the bars, when fast prison had so surely closed in round her? but what else could we do? we could not give her those glib assurances that naive souls make so easily to others concerning their after state. and the night was so beautiful, so utterly glamourously beautiful, with its star-flowers, and its silence and its trees clothed in moonlight. all was tranquil as a dream of sleep. but it was long before our hearts wandering with poor herd, would let us remember that she had slipped away into so beautiful a dream

In at least 150 words, identify and describe the setting, and the way the author uses imagery to describe it for part 1 of nectar in a sieve.

Give example of metaphors and similes