Read these lines from Emily Dickinson's "712" ("Because I could not stop for
Death"):
We slowly drove - He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility -
What is one purpose of the personification in this excerpt?
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A. It expresses a feeling of satisfaction on a life well lived.
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B. It presents death as having a sense of patient acceptance.
C. It makes the carriage seem like a friend to the speaker.
D. It links two unlike concepts: death and leisure.

Marianne moore’s “poetry” is written in defense of poetry. in the excerpts, which three lines or phrases reflect moore’s opinion of what good poetry should be? . . to discriminate against "business documents and school-books"; all these phenomena are important. one must make a distinction however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination" —above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it. in the meantime, if you demand on the one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, you are interested in poetry.