Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this poem. near the end of "the river merchant's wife: a letter," the speaker describes how she is hurt by seeing the "paired butterflies," which are "already yellow with august." how do these details develop the idea that time and maturity can allow love to develop between two people? a. they show that the speaker is still immature, which is why real love has not yet developed between her and her husband. b. they suggest that the beauty of the natural world is fleeting and cannot compare to the lasting beauty of two mature people who love one another. c. they show that, even when two people are mature enough to be in love, separation and time can cause their feelings to change and dim and wither. d. they suggest that the speaker is no longer the innocent girl or the bashful bride she once was, and she wants to be paired again with her beloved husband.

The answer is option D.

In the poem "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter," by Ezra Pound, the speaker makes reference to the paired yellow butterflies to suggest that she is growing old and that she is not with her beloved husband. Actually, she misses him and longs to meet him again.

in a place once known as north america, now known as panem, is a very rich city surrounded by twelve districts. every year because this very rich city, known as the capitol, is so rich and likes to think they control all the districts - which they do - there is something known as the hunger games! this is where two children, one boy and one girl from each district from the ages of twelve to eighteen, have to leave their families and compete in the hunger games, a live event that is aired on tv's all over panem. when katniss everdeen, aged sixteen from district 12, has to volunteer to take the place of her twelve-year-old sister prim after prim's name is called forth to become the 23rd member to compete in the 74th hunger games, she promises to prim that she will win! katniss doesn't believe she's coming out alive - but she's not going down without a fight.

because district 12 is so poor, katniss has been close to death many times from starvation but she's made it through it. but this is a different kind of close to death; this katniss doesn't know if she can survive.

she doesn't want to hurt, or kill anyone but when it comes down to it katniss' instinct is to survive. but when she starts to have confusing feelings about the boy from her district who is also her fellow contender, things get worse, and then she teams up with the girl from district 11 and only one person can survive. but who will it be? will her feelings get the better of her? will she let someone else win so they don't have to die? if katniss is going to win she's going to have to be brutal. she's going to have to kill!

the tree invited all its friends to its lumber party. the party was at saruman's tower in isengard because saruman had killed some trees