reading poetry is challenging when you don't have or very little of social context and culture schema.
solution: read the introduction, the norm, or even explaination if you still dont get it.
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1. negative, complain without fixing anything.
2. she disagrees with them.
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that you cannot mess with fate and love cannot be controlled
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"most children brought up in brooklyn before the first world war remember day there with a peculiar tenderness. it was the day children went around “ragamuffin” or “slamming gates,” wearing costumes topped off by a penny mask." this evokes a sense of time and place because of the diction it uses. it tells us that it was before ww1 on .
Read the passage. then, identify the theme that is supported by the passage. most ships cannot survive a terrible thunderstorm. the ocean is an angry beast that will tame any who try to control it. the gods have the power to control human destiny. men are willing to die to eat the delicious cattle of the gods.