What does the narrator's participation in the cat's death foreshadow in "the black cat"? click here to read the story. the narrator found that his disposition became increasingly worse only after hanging the cat. the second cat's white marking was a constant reminder of the way the narrator's cat died. the narrator himself was going to be hanged as punishment for his crime. the hanged cat's image was found on the only wall that survived the fire.

In the poem, collins suggests that memories do what as people age

My cat and my dog like best friends

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