This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes
grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque
gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and
chimneys and men who move dimly and already
crumbling through the powdery air.
what is the tone of this excerpt?
o a. grammatical
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b. formal
o c. dismal
o d. comical

Read this adapted excerpt from a famous poem by john keats. this poem is about a beautiful vase with intricate shapes and patterns. you, silent form, do tease us out of thought as does etemity: cold pastorall when old age shall this generation waste, you shall remain in the middle of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom you say "beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know what is the poet saying when he writes that "old age shall this generation waste"? the poet is expressing his dread of growing older the poet is mourning the changes he sees in his "generation." the poet is saying that beauty is illusionary and short-lived. the poet is saying that people don't live long; life is brief