If you were a weathly victorian man or woman what advantages might an education in the classical curriculum provide?

Until near the end of the Victorian Times wealth children would be educated at home. Boys on turning 10 would go to Public schools like Eton or Harrow, girls would remain studying at home with private tutors.

A classical education - which forms the basis of a liberal education -  in Victorian times meant to be prepared to occupy that rank of society to which persons destined for the services would usually belong, maintaining thus a sense of hierarchy and class order which means promises of privilege and ascendancy.

Therefore, a classical education for a wealthy man or woman would provide the tools for the maintenance of the status quo and for further ascension on society.  

1. all of the above

2. sensory language

1.   in sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. the speaker says “then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.   through his defeat of finding words to describe his love, he shows his love for her.

2.   instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her.   at the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. so instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her.

3.   the beloved asked the speaker to describe how he feels about her. she begins to describe what she feels but "drop the torch" and says that she can't do it because the words "hid in me out of reach." the the speaker says "nay, let the silence of my womanhood command my woman-love to thy belief" and that her silence will have to be the answer to his question.