Read the excerpt from "The Legacy of Billy Mason." "I told you I should have stayed home!" Billy protested
plaintively. "I'm missing the first game of the playoffs,
and my team really needs me!"
In the context of the story, the excerpt is ironic because
Billy's father
"I understand began his father.
"No, you don't understand," said Billy, "because you
never cared about anything like I care about baseball,
not in your whole life."
O is actually a very good baseball player.
O named his son after a baseball player.
O stayed away from the playoffs
O is more concerned about the family's vacation.
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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