Discovering the tone
highlight the words that you find the tone of this which of these statements best describes the tone of
stanza.
this stanza?
and both that morning equally lay
the speaker is reflective and wistful about the path
in leaves no step had trodden black.
he could have taken,
oh, i kept the first for another day!
yet knowing how way leads on to way,
the speaker is confident that he will walk both
i doubted if i should ever come back.
paths someday
- "the road not taken." |
the speaker is mad at himself for not choosing the
robert frost other path
the speaker yearns for the other path and wishes
he had taken it instead.
intro
done

c. with one finger is the answer

explanation:

the intellectual community is a place like a university where people with high marks, or original thought or an outstanding interest in something gather. they take classes together. they discuss things. they argue sometimes, and not always in a friendly way. but if they argue, it is because they are passionate about something, and there is nothing the matter with that.

lately i've been hearing rumors that it is not the way it was when i went to school. the one thing all schools used to have was free speech. the 1st amendment rights were sacred. now i'm hearing they are not. students can be reported and disciplined for giving an off the wall opinion.

that is shameful.

intellectual ideas are meant to be discussed. they are meant to be chewed up and worked on. that is the primary responsibility of every intellectual community. if that is not the way it is, then that is not a school to go to.

social media, in my opinion, and this is just an opinion. i wouldn't take it too seriously, complicates everything to do with human communication. you can want to share things and others feel they have the right to be very critical or sarcastic or mean about what you share. lack of respect is an immeasurable intolerable condition and social media abounds with that sort of thing.

one of the things i really like about is how careful people are because they must have some idea that the mods are exactly what the word says they are. they police this board very well, and what is so remarkable about them is that they are no older than the average grade 12 student.

my hat goes off to them (which means i respect them quite a bit).

thinking about things and referring to books instead of acting on superstition and gossip.