Have students turn to a partner or form small groups to engage in a collaborative discussion about the way rilke uses imagery and other poetic devices in the poem. this is the poem^^this clumsy living that moves lumberingas if in ropes through what is not done, reminds us of the awkward way the swan walks. and to die, which is the letting goof the ground we stand on and cling to every day, is like the swan, when he nervously lets himself downinto the water, which receives him gailyand which flows joyfully underand after him, wave after wave, while the swan, unmoving and marvelously calm, is to be carried, each moment more fully grown, more like a king, further and further

Which choice most effectively combines the sentences at the underlined portion

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Read the excerpt from ernest hemingway’s “soldier's home.” his father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. the car always stood outside the first national bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. now, after the war, it was still the same car. nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up. how does hemingway’s description of the town as unchanged impact the readers’ perception of krebs? it emphasizes that while the town has remained the same, krebs has changed. it illustrates that krebs despises the town he grew up in because it is boring. it demonstrates that krebs views himself as similar to the other soldiers from his town. it reveals that krebs is jealous of those who were able to stay in town and avoid the war.