How is the message of this poem similar to the poet’s message in "the courage that my mother had"?
read these stanzas from the poem "frederick douglass" by paul laurence dunbar.

a hush is over all the teeming lists,
and there is pause, a breath-space in the strife;
a spirit brave has passed beyond the mists
and vapors that obscure the sun of life.
and ethiopia, with bosom torn,
laments the passing of her noblest born.

and he was no soft-tongued apologist;
he spoke straight-forward, fearlessly uncowed;
the sunlight of his truth dispelled the mist
and set in bold relief each dark-hued cloud;
to sin and crime he gave their proper hue,
and hurled at evil what was evil's due.

thro' good and ill report he cleaved his way
right onward, with his face set toward the heights,
nor feared to face the foeman's dread array—
the lash of scorn, the sting of petty spites.
he dared the lightning in the lightning's track,
and answered thunder with his thunder back.

a. both poems celebrate a brave struggle for equal rights
b. both poems struggle to overcome their grief.
c. both poems mourn the bravery of one who has died
d. both poems express for inherited traits.

The answer is:

C.Both poems mourn the bravery of one who has died.

Written for late persons, The courage that my mother has, written by Edna St. Vincent, talks about all the things that her mother taught her, and the thing that she wishes she had left her is her courage.

some sort of sound device i believe.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)