From On the Bus with Rosa Parks by Rita Dove

Rosa

How she sat there,

the time right inside a place

so wrong it was ready.

That trim name with

its dream of a bench

to rest on. Her sensible coat.

Doing nothing was the doing:

the clean flame of her gaze

carved by a camera flash.

How she stood up

when they bent down to retrieve

her purse. That courtesy.

How is the poem "On the Bus with Rosa Parks" different from the memoir My Story? Check all that apply.

The poem describes a single scene; the memoir describes many scenes.

The poem uses few words; the memoir uses many words.

The poem has short lines and stanzas; the memoir is written in prose paragraphs.

The poem places the bus ride in historical perspective; the memoir does not.

The poem explains why Rosa Parks stayed seated; the memoir does not.

The poem shows an outsider’s point of view of Rosa Parks; the memoir does not.

The poem compares Rosa Parks’s gaze to a flame; the memoir does not.

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the shift in the poem’s rhythm in the last stanza signifies a resolution to the conflict that the poem is a sonnet the speaker’s confusion an irregular rhyme scheme

Answer asap the importance of being earnest! 21. identify and explain how symbolism was used in the play. respond in complete sentences.

Wrtie a essay based on your outline from lesson 2. your essay will be about the same topic. a famous hoax from history