How does the first stanza of "Ocean's Gifts" contribute to the development of ideas in the poem? It expresses the speaker's future goals.

It reflects the speaker's determination

It hides the speaker's emotion

It reveals the speaker's desire

Why does juelz get bit by an alligator and why was arthur the only one who in the middle chapter of the book

How does the narrator’s knowledge of his postapocalyptic world in "by the waters of babylon” affect his reactions to the different settings? it motivates him to make up stories about the world and the places he explores. it has caused him to fear the settings outside the hill country, so he tries to avoid them. it forces him to reject what he sees and experiences himself at various locations in the story. it makes him cautious about new settings yet open-minded and critical of what he experiences.

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,    better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.    laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.    laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. (laugh and be merry/john masefield/public domain) which of these is the main idea of the poem?