Line 2: "For sorrow near I did not look"
Which is another way to write
this line without using
inverted syntax?
A. I did not look for sorrow near.
B. For sorrow near looked not I.
C. I looked not for sorrow near.

answer: to inform

explanation: the red death is an exciting passage, but also in some ways scary, so it is not to amuse. the red death is far in the past, so it is not to warn.

jenkins wanted the narrator to write a ghost story for his magazine. he wanted the narrator to give the readers a story based on the supernatural. he wanted him to give the readers real 'horror' stories and not the type of live ghosts which he had presented in his earlier stories.