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.

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification