Pletesi. fun
allu lallguage
poetry
select the correct text in the passage.
which set of lines in this excerpt from walt whitman's "when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom
is part of the fament stage of an slegt
when lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd
and the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night,
i mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring
ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring.
lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west,
and thought of him i love
o powerful western fallen star!
o shades of night--o moody, tearful night!
o great star disappear'd the black murk that hides the star!
o cruel hands that hold me powerless - soul of me!
o harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul
in the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings,
stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green,
with many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong i love
with every leaf a miracle--and from this bush in the dooryard,
with delicate-color'd blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green
a sprig with its flower i break

the answer is

r ≈5.641

plug in the area of 100 yards into the equation

100=

divide each side by pi

≈ 31.8309=

take the square root of each side to find r

=r

r ≈5.641

1.   in sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. the speaker says “then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.   through his defeat of finding words to describe his love, he shows his love for her.

2.   instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her.   at the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. so instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her.

3.   the beloved asked the speaker to describe how he feels about her. she begins to describe what she feels but "drop the torch" and says that she can't do it because the words "hid in me out of reach." the the speaker says "nay, let the silence of my womanhood command my woman-love to thy belief" and that her silence will have to be the answer to his question.