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Why does the speaker choose to contemplate an urn from ancient Greece rather than a work of art from his own time period?
A) The speaker wants to appreciate how art transcends historical changes.
B) The speaker wants to revive the kinds of ancient rituals depicted on the urn.
C) The speaker distinguishes between craft arts like pottery and fine arts like painting.
D) The speaker thinks the ancient Greeks were more beautiful than the British of the nineteenth century.

How might a listener feel about his or her griefs after hearing the wife's lament

How does shakespeare transform the myth of phoebus and daphne to dramatize this theme?

This excerpt is from “the poet” by alfred, lord tennyson. the poem describes a poet's consciousness and perception. which three lines suggest the richness of a poet's thoughts? thus truth was multiplied on truth, [the world like one great garden show'd,] and thro' the wreaths of floating dark upcurl'd, rare sunrise flow'd. [and freedom rear'd in that august sunrise] her beautiful bold brow, when rites and forms before his burning eyes melted like snow. [there was no blood upon her maiden robes] sunn'd by those orient skies; but round about the circles of the globes of her keen eyes and in her raiment's hem was traced in flame wisdom, a name to shake [all evil dreams of power--a sacred name.] and when she spake, [her words did gather thunder as they ran,] and as the lightning to the thunder which follows it, riving the spirit of man, making earth wonder, so was their meaning to her words. no sword of wrath her right arm whirl'd, [ but one poor poet's scroll, and with 'his' word] she shook the world.