How can analyzing the structure, language and poetic devices found in the text help us understand how the poet feels about race in America? In the poem "On the subway" by Sharon Olds

When first i engaged in this work, i resolved to leave neither words nor things unexamined, and myself with a prospect of the hours which i should revel away in feasts of literature . . –preface to a dictionary of the english language, samuel johnson what is the connotation of the word revel in this passage?

(05.02)on a boat, a cabin's window is in the shape of an isosceles trapezoid, as shown below. what is the area of the window? using what you know about the words "decompose," "descent," and "deport," the prefix "de" means

The fact that ambrose bierce actually fought in the civil war has what impact on his writing in the occurrence at owl creek bridge