Viewpoint one:
gardening is one of the most relaxing pastimes a person can do. ridding a garden of weeds can feel very fulfilling, and watching life grow from a small seed to a gorgeous flower can be very beautiful. gardening teaches patience because its results are not always immediately visible. children today are spending far too much time indoors and need to feel the health benefits of being outdoors gardening.

viewpoint two:
every saturday, my mother makes me work in the yard. i have to weed all the flower beds in the front yard, and then plant all the seeds and seedlings my mother purchased at the farmer's market during the week. i cannot express to you how unbelievably boring gardening is. i feel like i am wasting my life away and--regardless of my mother's protestations--not learning a single valuable life lesson from this activity.

which best expresses the difference between these two viewpoints?
a) viewpoint two and viewpoint one agree that gardening, while not always fun, teaches valuable life lessons.
b) viewpoint one sees many benefits from gardening, while viewpoint two sees gardening as a complete waste of time.
c) viewpoint two expresses general truths about gardening, while viewpoint one is filled with emotionally expressed personal opinions.
d) viewpoint one believes that gardening does not teach valuable lessons, while viewpoint two sees many life lessons can be learned through gardening.

Modernist poetry broke traditions in works that did all of the following except: question 1 options: a) experimented with language, symbolism, and imagery b) challenged rules about point of view, rhyme scheme, meter, and capitalization c) focused on the poem’s appearance on the page as a form of self-expression d) addressed subjects and ideas that had been explored in poetry for centuries. while mr. flood is not heroic in the typical sense and does nothing admirable during the poem’s action, robinson’s description of mr. flood is nevertheless filled with pathos, which a) the poem is filled with language and descriptions which arouse emotion, usually pity and sympathy, from the reader. b) the poem is filled with nonsensical events that make the reader laugh at mr. flood’s expense. c) the poem gives vivid sensory details that make the reader feel like they are a part of the story. d) the poem is tedious and drawn out with details that don’t influence the reader at all. refer to the william carlos williams poem "spring and all" (on pages 306-7 in your textbook), to answer the prompt below. your response should be 1-2 well-developed paragraphs and should include specific details (quotes) from the poem that support your analysis. cite your textual evidence as well. you should use your journeys book. because “spring and all” ends with language and imagery that suggest birth and growth, many readers consider it a hopeful poem that celebrates the first steps toward new life and away from a wintry world characterized by death and decay. consider the poem’s date of publication—1923—and the historical events that influenced many modern writers, specifically, world war i. poem below: by the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast-a cold wind. beyond, the waste of broad, muddy fields brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen patches of standing water the scattering of tall trees all along the road the reddish purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy stuff of bushes and small trees with dead, brown leaves under them leafless vines- lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches- they enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter. all about them the cold, familiar wind- now the grass, tomorrow the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf one by one objects are defined- it quickens: clarity, outline of leaf but now the stark dignity of entrance-still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken how might “spring and all” be interpreted as a reaction to the violence of world war 1? be sure to cite examples from the poem to support your analysis.