Nothing gold can stay"

by robert frost

nature's first green is gold,

her hardest hue to hold.

her early leaf's a flower;

but only so an hour.

then leaf subsides to leaf.

so eden sank to grief,

so dawn goes down to day.

nothing gold can stay.

"the red wheelbarrow"

by william carlos williams

so much depends

upon

a red wheel

barrow

glazed with rain

water

beside the white

chickens.

compare and contrast the ways in which the two authors use figurative language in their poems to convey tone. how does the tone in each poem differ? be sure to include specific details from the texts to support your answer.

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Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain. no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism. how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.