How does lowell’s word choice support his theme?
lowell uses words such as “nest,” “lark,” and “songbirds” to inform the reader about birds.
lowell mentions specific birds and uses words such as “passion” to show how slowly life moves.
lowell uses words such as “song-birds,” “passion,” and “impatience” to suggest that life is brief and should be lived passionately.

I've lost the exact quote, but there's a note in Nietzsche somewhere about old

philosophers and their tendency to issue declarations, assertions, without any

supporting arguments or augmentative proofs . . . this practice, he says, always

proceeds not from wisdom but from weariness . . . I think I've reached that decrepit

state, because I find myself impatient with process; I too want to write things that

simply declare, that baldly state conclusions, without my having to create or present

a viable context . . . I try to justify it to myself with the excuse of poetry's necessary

need for brevity, and I can find quotes from the greats to support that pose-stance,

but it's really age that's causing my slack-off . . . I'm 66 years old and I'm exhausted:

every poem in my work-folder is a letter of resignation. A plea for early (too late!)

retirement.

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When does the President have me scheduled to die from Bird Flu? Not soon enough, I

hear some say.

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I don't do it much now, but about 4 years ago I read R. S. Thomas everyday for months

on end. You could say I read him religiously, and the pun applies because while I told

myself I was reading him for the trenchant style and the tenacities of his craft,

inevitably I had to contend with the endless metaphors of Christianity that fill his

work: his poems are reiteratively if not exclusively concerned with the spiritual

life. . . . as I read him I grew envious over the wealth of tropes, the seemingly

limitless inscapes of figuration which Christianity provides for his poems. . . He

returns again and again to those traditional interactions and confrontations between

human and deity, and somehow brings the old ciphers if not back to life, at least back

to line. . . . I'm an atheist, I hate religion, but I understand the appeal of it for poets,

i.e. its rich repetoire of associations and subject matter . . . I could see why, in the

absence of other intellectual considerations, a poet might convert to any faith for

poetical reasons alone, never mind salvation. (The extravagant solidities of the

former outweigh the pathetic apparitions of the latter.) If only the choice were that

simple.

Explanation:

Lowell uses words such as “song-birds,” “passion,” and “impatience” to suggest that life is brief and should be lived passionately.

Explanation:

The use of this words in Lowell's poem talks about how fast and volatile the emotions can be and at the same time how intense and necessary they are for the human to feel, a life without these emotions would be a wasted one, then the poem invites people to live and take all the experiences that life can offer with all the passion they have.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

different strategies reach different people based on their ability to understand the material. (from personal experience) when writing an argumentative essay write explaining the subject as though your audience never heard of it before and it is just being introduced, then explain why other people hate it also, afterward you would explain why that would be wrong. i hope that : )