Plz in "the second coming" by w. b. yeats, the speaker asserts that the best people "lack all conviction," while the worst are "full of passionate intensity." how does this statement apply to the speakers in "an irish airman foresees his death" and "the love song of j. alfred prufrock"? what characteristics of the modern world make it difficult, if not impossible, to be heroic in the traditional sense?

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination