Read the lines from "the gardner" by rabindranath tagore. with a glance of your eyes you could plunder all the wealth of songs struck from poets’ harps, fair woman! but for their praises you have no ear, therefore i come to praise you you could humble at your feet the proudest heads in the world. the use of apostrophe in the excerpt causes the reader to

a. gain insight into the speaker’s feelings for the woman.

b. imagine exactly what the harps would sound like.

c. think that the woman has very poor hearing.

d. visualize what the "proudest heads in the world" look like.

The correct answer is A. gain insight into the speaker’s feelings for the woman.

Explanation:

The poem talks about the glorified love the author feels towards a woman.

He perfects this woman and talks about her gaze as if it were magical and that she has the power to “plunder all the wealth of songs struck from poets’ harps”.

The man seems to adore this woman even though he fears being rejected for her love, and continues to talk about her with a feeling that clearly shows that it is love.

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assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

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