Read the excerpt from the poem "Barbara Frietchie.” He glanced: the old flag met his sight.

What do the action words in this sentence tell the reader?

The flag appeared old when looked at carefully.
The man looked quickly and saw a flag.
The flag was hidden from view for several minutes.
The man looked for a long time until finding the flag.

The man looked quickly and saw a flag.

Explanation:

To glance means to take a brief and quick look at something. As the line says that man “glanced”, this means he quickly looked. “The old flag met his sight” means that when he took that quick look, he saw the flag.

He did not look at it carefully or for a long time as the line does not suggest that and that is not the meaning of the word. There is also nothing to suggest it was hidden and couldn’t be seen.

first of all the mood needs to be defined: it is obviously a mood of deceitful relief and serenity. why? because the cape horn is one of the most violent maritime regions of earth and although it has been left behind, it is a personification of ahab’s delirium and the fact that the end of the passage speaks about it about being “hidden” but “raving” immediately conveys the feeling the calm is not permanent but fleeting.

furthermore, the oxymoron “mild stun'sails” is the first instance of such feeling as the adjective “mild” is associated with “stunned” underscoring the fleeting nature of this “tranquil” moment. and the contrasts keep piling up, with the opposition between “dark den” and “blessed light and air” to end with the final conclusion that leaves the reader with the uneasy knowledge that this is just a reprieve.

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