Red Shoes in the Rain
you have been here three days.
just long enough to leave
yourself in every corner
of the house-leaning against
dusky pink walls with your arms
folded lightly across your chest
or behind your head, waiting for someone
as though you were still at the airport
or in some crowded railway station
in another city.
the coat in the closet holds your shape.
it could almost glide out the door
on its own, shrug its shoulders,
pull away from me wanting
to keep it here.
you have gone out-to be alone,
to concentrate on other things.
while I stare and stare at
slate-blue water and black trees
dancing three inches off the ground.
the house has never been so empty
your presence leaks out like oxygen
under the door, out the windows,
follows you down the street like a spy.
there is not enough time to say
all the things that crowd up, images
swelling and vanishing with each breath.

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee. —"sonnet 18," william shakespeare in one to two sentences, explain the central idea of the final couplet of the poem.

Read the passage from a vindication of the rights of woman. that the society is formed in the wisest manner, whose constitution is founded on the nature of man, strikes, in the abstract, every thinking being so forcibly, that it looks like presumption to endeavour to bring forward proofs; though proof must be brought, or the strong hold of prescription will never be forced by reason; yet to urge prescription as an argument to justify the depriving men (or women) of their natural rights, is one of the absurd sophisms which daily insult common sense. does wollstonecraft maintain an objective tone in the passage? yes, because she uses objective language such as “society is formed in the wisest manner.” yes, because she uses objective language such as “it looks like presumption to endeavor.” no, because she uses subjective language such as “though proof must be brought, or the strong hold.” no, because she uses subjective language such as “absurd sophisms which daily insult common sense.”

What point was thomas paine trying to make by relating this antidote