C. And Even Now 1) And Even Now- the poem is below but read the following first.

Before you read, pretend that you are a child trying to get to sleep. Consider various images that might come to mind.
Then find the definitions for:

goblin: are {what}in folklore and fantasy

Agony: extreme physical or mental suffering.

During reading, write down one word that conveys each stanza. (In poetry, a stanza is a grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line or indentation. Stanzas in poetry are like paragraphs in an essay)

And Even Now
Dorothy Livesay

When I was a child,
Lying in bed on a summer evening,
The wind was a tall sweet woman
Standing beside my window.
She came whenever my mind was quiet.

But on other nights
I tossed about in fear and agony
Because of goblins poking at the blind,
And fearful faces underneath by bed.
We played a horrible game of hide-and-seek
With Sleep the far-off, treacherous goal.

And even now, stumbling about in the dark,
I wonder, Who was it that touched me? –
What thing laughed?

About the poet
Dorothy Livesay was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1909 and passed away in 1996. As a teacher, she worked in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) from 1959 to 1963. She then taught as a writer-in-residence at a number of universities in Canada. Besides being a professor, she also worked as a journalist and editor. Livesay was the founder and first editor of CVII and a founding member of the League of Canadian Poets. The B. C. book prize for poetry is named in her honour. She won the Governor General's Literary Award in the poetry category in 1944 for Day And Night, and again in 1947 for Poems for People. Livesay was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1987.

Please respond to the following questions:

1. What was “the tall sweet woman” of the author’s childhood?

2. When did she come to visit?

3. What did she see during nights of “fear and agony”?

4. The author writes that Sleep was the “far off treacherous goal.”
What do you imagine the word treacherous means? Find the
word in the dictionary.

5. Locate the personification in this poem and write down the specific lines in which you have found the personification.

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Read the excerpt from "save the redwoods."another, one of the finest in the grove, more than three hundred feet high, was skinned alive to a height of one hundred and sixteen feet from the ground and the bark sent to london to show how fine and big that calaveras tree was—as sensible a scheme as skinning our great men would be to prove their greatness.which  best  describes how the excerpt appeals to readers’ emotions? the excerpt provides facts about the tree, which impresses readers’ scientific minds.the excerpt describes how the tree traveled to london, which excites the readers’ sense of adventure.the excerpt compares the tree to a person, which makes readers feel sympathetic toward the tree.the excerpt explains how to skin a tree, which makes readers feel awed at the height of the tree.

Industrialization in europe changed the way people lived. the urban working class came into being, and with it came the drudgery of work. which two parts of this excerpt from franz kafka's the metamorphosis most closely reflect this impact of industrialization on people's lives? "what's happened to me? " he thought. it wasn't a dream. his room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. a collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table—samsa was a travelling salesman—and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. it showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer. gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel quite sad. "how about if i sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense," he thought, but that was something he was unable to do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present state couldn't get into that position. however hard he threw himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. he must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt before. "oh, no", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that i've chosen! travelling day in and day out. doing business like this takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or become friendly with them. they can all go away! " he felt a slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back because as soon as he touched it he was overcome by a cold shudder. he slid back into his former position. "getting up early all the time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. you've got to get enough sleep. other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. for instance, whenever i go back to the guest house during the morning to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting there eating their breakfasts. i ought to just try that with my boss; i'd get kicked out on the spot. but who knows, maybe that would be the best thing for me. if i didn't have my parents to think about i'd have given in my notice a long time ago, i'd have gone up to the boss and told him just what i think, tell him everything i would, let him know just what i feel."

Baca use comforting imagery. which lines have a more serious tone than the rest of the poem a. when the outside world / no longer cares if you live or die; b. so it is a pot full of yellow corn / to warm your belly in winter, c. remember. / i love you.d. it's all i have to give, / and all anyone needs to live,