Which statement best describes how the setting in stanza 4 impacts the meaning of the poem? "We paused before a house that seemed /A swelling of the ground; /The roof was scarcely visible, /The cornice but a mound."

A.) The speaker describes her tomb as a "house," showing she views her body's final resting place as one of comfort rather than fear.
B.) The speaker describes her grave as a "house," suggesting she needs shelter from death, contributing to her desperate and scared tone.
C.) The speaker's final "house" or tomb has collapsed into the earth, contributing to the poem's theme that human lives are unimportant to nature.
D.) The speaker does not want to pause at the "house," suggesting the setting frightens her and she is eager to move on.

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themes and meanings

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”

an great real life example for the lottery principle is the real life lottery itself. it adheres to the lottery principle so much it's even called lottery. you apply for the lottery in the manner of getting a ticket and if you are lucky, the goods are distributed to you, in this case, the huge amounts of money. there are other real life example but this is the best one.

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