Rauschenberg, who was then an up-and- coming American artist, plucked up the courage to ask
Willem de Kooning, an established abstract expressionist,
for one of his drawings. Rauschenberg did not tell de
Kooning much - just that he intended to use it for an
unusual project. Although de Kooning was disapproving,
he acquiesced.
After securing his gift, Rauschenberg proceeded, over the
period of a month, to carefully erase all traces of the
expressive pencil, charcoal, and crayon drawing that de
Kooning had put to paper.
Rauschenberg then re-titled the work, now preserved in
the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Art,
“Erased de Kooning Drawing."
-"Banksy and the Tradition of Destroying Art,"
Preminda Jacob
Why does the author end the example by stating that
the piece is now in a museum?
To point out that acts of defiance can end up as
valuable works of art
O To establish that Rauschenberg is an important
artist
O To describe how de Kooning helped other artists
rebel
O To recognize the value of each piece of art created
Done

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the shift in the poem’s rhythm in the last stanza signifies a resolution to the conflict that the poem is a sonnet the speaker’s confusion an irregular rhyme scheme

Along the sea-sands damp and brown the traveller hastens toward the town, what is the effect of the enjambment in these two lines? it emphasizes the idea that each line is a separate thought. it creates a rhyme scheme between the two lines. it encourages the reader to pause between the two lines. it strengthens the connection between the two lines.

When doing a close reading, what is involved in the process of annotating a text?