You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
“they called me the hyacinth girl”
--yet when we came back, late, from the hyacinth garden,
your arms full, and your hair wet, i could not
speak and my eyes failed, i was neither
living nor dead, and i knew nothing,
looking into the heart of light, the silence.
oed’und leer das meer.

is this text an example of a literary or non-fiction text? if literary, is it a poem, novel, play or something? if non-fiction, what type of non-fiction?

Read the excerpt. … in lower burma, i was hated by large numbers of people. … i was subdivisional police officer of the town, and … anti-european feeling was very bitter. … as a police officer i was an obvious target and was baited whenever it seemed safe to do so. … i had already made up my mind that imperialism was an evil thing. … i was all for the burmese and all against their oppressors, the british. what is the situational irony in the excerpt from “shooting an elephant” by george orwell? the narrator is a british police officer and part of the system he dislikes. the narrator is himself a well-liked member of the burmese government. the narrator has recently become a burmese citizen. the narrator has decided to leave the british empire.

How does gatsby smile at nick? why is this important?

Which syllable is stressed with the word retribution