Read the excerpt from "mending wall." spring is the mischief in me, and i wonder if i could put a notion in his head: "why do they make good neighbours? isn't it where there are cows? but here there are no cows. before i built a wall i'd ask to know what i was walling in or walling out, and to whom i was like to give offence. something there is that doesn't love a wall, that wants it down." now read “the pasture,” also by robert frost. i’m going out to clean the pasture spring; i’ll only stop to rake the leaves away (and wait to watch the water clear, i may): i shan’t be gone long.—you come too. i’m going out to fetch the little calf that’s standing by the mother. it’s so young, it totters when she licks it with her tongue. i shan’t be gone long.—you come too. which best accounts for the different views of spring expressed in the poems? a. frost’s opinions changed through time. b. the poems have different speakers. c. frost’s speakers represent his own views. d. the poems were written at different locations.

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky