Which of the following phrases from the second stanza of "To One in Paradise" illustrates the shift of the poem's mood from happy to gloomy? A. "starry Hope!" B. "dream too bright" C. "That didst arise" D. "mute, motionless, aghast"

D. "mute, motionless, aghast".

Explanation:

Edgar Allen Poe's poem "To One in Paradise" is about a person's loss of his love. The poem, like most of Poe's poems, deals with themes of loss, melancholy, suffering, feeling alone, depressing, despair, hopelessness, etc.

In the poem, the speaker talks of his love who had died. This made him depressed and eventually with no prospects of living at all. The first stanza addresses the dead love directly and who was his everything. He described her as "A green isle in the sea . . . A fountain and a shrine, All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers".

Then, the mood shifted when "the dream [was] too bright to last". The speaker reveals his spirit was left "Mute, motionless, aghast!" This takes him back to the reality where he is all alone, unable to move past the fact that she's no more while he remains.

Thus, the correct answer is option D.

i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

1. this isn't like any other story i've read or watched because it is about a black family in mississippi right after slavery in the u.s. had become illegal. most of the novels i have read were about slavery. another point is that the author of the novel used symbolism in a way i haven't seen before. for example she uses thunder as something negative meaning something bad will happen. but by the end of the novel, she made thunder a good thing.

2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.