Read these lines from stanza 2 of the poem.
the stout mate thought of home; a spray
of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek.
how does the poet's use of the word swarthy affect the poem?
a.) it suggests that the mate's cheeks are puffy and wet from the sea spray.
b.) it emphasizes that the mate's face is dark and weathered from the sun and sea.
c.) it suggests that the mate has been a seaman a long time and his skin is aged.
d.) it emphasizes that the mate is homesick and the sea spray hides his tears.

answer: first person

explanation:

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

impartial means: treating all rivals or disputants equally; fair and just.

i would say that impartial is agreeing with something, because impartial means to treat your rivals, arguments, and reasoning equally and fair. so if you rival says something, agreeing on it means you did the impartial.