Read the excerpt from Lawrence Ferlinghetti's To the Oracle at Delphi. Great Oracle, sleeping through the centuries, Awaken now at last And tell us how to save us from ourselves and how to survive our own rulers who would make a plutocracy of our democracy in the Great Divide between the rich and the poor in whom Walt Whitman heard America singing Who are the "rulers" mentioned in the text? A. military officers B. religious leaders C. educators D. the wealthy

c. would be the answer : )

explanation:

b would have to be the answer

poe’s time at the academy was financed by his foster father, john, meaning that poe needed his foster father’s permission in order to drop out if he wanted to. unfortunately, poe’s relationship with his foster father was soon on the rocks again after john married his second wife, louisa patterson.

i was just learning about this in language arts a week ago. edgar poe makes lots of wonderful books, too.