Type your response in the box. Quickly scan the text of "The Water of Life and locate the words listed. Write the definition of each word based on the context in which it is used. Then look up the definition for each word on the Internet or in a dictionary. Jot down the definitions into the Notebook tool to keep handy as you read the story. besought doted whither distaff flax hubbub forelock (if you can please read the story or if you have please help!!!)

Read this adapted excerpt from a famous poem by john keats. this poem is about a beautiful vase with intricate shapes and patterns. you, silent form, do tease us out of thought as does etemity: cold pastorall when old age shall this generation waste, you shall remain in the middle of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom you say "beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know what is the poet saying when he writes that "old age shall this generation waste"? the poet is expressing his dread of growing older the poet is mourning the changes he sees in his "generation." the poet is saying that beauty is illusionary and short-lived. the poet is saying that people don't live long; life is brief