Caesar freely confessed to me that the greatest actions of his own life were not equal, by many degrees, to the glory of taking it away. i had the honor to have much conversation with brutus; and was told that his ancestor junius, socrates, epaminondas, cato the younger, sir thomas more, and himself, were perpetually together: a sextumvirate to which all the ages of the world cannot add a seventh.

what would be the best suggestion to give to jonathan swift for improving the allusion in the passage?

provide some explanation of what made junius, socrates, epaminondas, cato the younger, and sir thomas more such an interesting group.
give the time and place of the events.
add to the middle of the passage one long sentence full of imagery and figurative language.
invent three fake philosophers with unusual names and include them in the passage.

The harlem renaissance dawned in an era of pervasive racism and segregation. although legally "free," many african americans were still bound by ideas that had their roots in the slavery of earlier centuries. identity and freedom are important ideas presented in many of the poems from the harlem renaissance. furthermore, the values of identity and freedom are not unique to particular times and places. as hughes expresses in "dream variations," all humans want to be able to develop their identities in freedom. what role does freedom play in the poems you read in this unit? what is required of a society to enable each individual to be true to his or her identity and be free to live by that identity? write about at least three of the poems, describing how the poet uses imagery to depict freedom and identity, the lack of it, or the desire for it.