What does the "dust" mentioned in lines 4-5 likely represent? Cite evidence to support your answer. If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam; A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blessed by suns of home. And think, this heart, all evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind, no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

In the poem, "dust" most likely refers to the body of the dead soldier.

Explanation:

The poem we are analyzing here is called "The Soldier", and it was written by English author Rupert Chawner Brooke. The soldier himself is the speaker in the poem.

Right from the start, he says, "If I should die." From here on, we must imagine this soldier dead, his body lying somewhere in a foreign field. "There shall be / In that rich earth a richer dust concealed" means that his decayed body will mix itself with the earth on which it lies. His body is the "richer dust". It is an old idea, biblical even, that our bodies are made of dust, and to dust they return once we die. However, the dust that is the soldier's body is richer than the dust of the ground. His dust was once alive. It loved and was loved. It cared for and defended his country: "A dust whom / England bore, shaped, made aware, / Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam; / A body of England's, breathing English air, / Washed by the rivers, blessed by suns of home."

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

the servant does not kill the child oedipus as he was ordered to do because "he pitied the child" based on the oedipus rex story. the servant was ordered to kill the child because of the prophecy that predicted king laius' death. the king already had attempted to hurt oedipus by piercing oedipus's ankle. however, the servant did not finish the job and he rather saved the baby oedipus.

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