Which theme is prominent in this excerpt from "to an athlete dying young" by a. e. housman? now you will not swell the rout of lads that wore their honours out, runners whom renown outran and the name died before the man. so set, before its echoes fade, the fleet foot on the sill of shade, and hold to the low lintel up the still-defended challenge-cup and round that early-laurelled head will flock to gaze the strengthless dead, and find unwithered on its curls the garland briefer than a girl's. the inevitability of death

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme

Review the allusion which best interprets the meaning of the allusion 1 the man is thick and jolly 2 the man is crabby and unfriendly 3 this man works as a santa claus impersonator 4 the man is generous to others

In robert fosters birches what does the speaker think of when he sees birches bend left and right