Read the excerpt from Walt Whitman's poem "I Sit and Look Out" that Clara is using in her analysis of "The
Caged Bird."
Clara chose this excerpt to help support her
interpretation of "The Caged Bird" because it has an
extended metaphor that examines
I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and
upon all oppression and shame; I hear the secret
convulsive sobs ...
O secrecy.
O sacrifice.
shame.
suffering.
no

Read the excerpt. while i am i, and you are you, so long as the world contains us both, me the loving and you the loth, while the one eludes, must the other pursue. what do these lines, from “life in a love” by robert browning, convey about the speaker’s pursuit of his beloved? eventually, they will switch roles, and she will chase him. he will try to win her love for as long as they are both alive. if they lived in a different time and place, he would not love her. they are meant for each other, and he is certain that they will be together.

Match the author with the description a. ernest hemingway b. john steinbeck c. robert frost d. langston hughes (1) summers spent in pacific grove, california influenced the symbolism in his literature (2) his poetry includes simple, direct language. many are dramatic monologues written in free verse are about life on new england farms (3) the mood and tone of his literature is largely shaped by his experience as a soldier in world war 1 (4) his poetry and short stories include dialect and colloquialisms which gives his primarily african american characters distinctive voices

"introduction to oedipus the king": what is most likely the author's intent in writing about the difference(s) between sophocles's play and the original myth on which it's based?