What would change if the poet broke the lines like this instead? In winter all the singing is in the tops of the trees
where the wind-bird with its white eyes shoves
and pushes among the branches. Like any of us

the meaning of the lines
the rhythm of the lines
the sound of each word
the topic of the poem HEL I’m timed in LESS THEN 5 MIN PL HURRY

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme