Read the excerpt from "the snow.”on stump and stack and stem, —the summer's empty room, acres of seams where harvests were, recordless, but for them. what is the connotation of the word "empty”? the area looks run-down. the area looks scary. the area looks barren. the area looks fragile.

The correct answer to which is the connotation of the word "empty" in that excerpt is C. The area looks barren.

The poem "The Snow" - also known as "It Sifts From LeadenSieves" - by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) describes the movement and the effects of snow in a lyrical and beautifully metaphorical way. She captures how it falls and covers the the road, the fences and the landscapes, transforming them from a familiar vision into something different and strange in a romantic way.

In the mentioned excerpt, the snow has covered the fields where the harvests were in summer, full of live and vegetation, turning them into an "empty" or barren space. The memories of the plantation in summer have been replaced by an empty field covered in snow, rendering it ghostly and barren.

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source text: from the sketch here given it will be seen, that our good grandmothers differed considerably in their ideas of a fine figure, from their scantily dressed descendants of the present day. a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. nor were they the less admired by the gentlemen in consequence thereof. on the contrary, the greatness of a lover's passion seemed to increase in proportion to the magnitude of its object—and a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. certain it is, that in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen - - the reason of which i conclude to be, either that the hearts of the gentlemen have grown larger, or the persons of the ladies smaller — this however is a question for physiologists to determine. add punctuation to the following excerpt. writing under the name of diedrich knickerbocker washington irving aimed his potent satire at as diverse topics as political rivals such as thomas jefferson to the very ideal of looking back on the past affectionately: a fine lady, in those times, waddled under more clothes even on a fair summer's day, than would have clad the whole bevy of a modern ball room. a voluminous damsel, arrayed in a dozen of petticoats, was declared by a low-dutch sonnetteer of the province, to be radiant as a sunflower, and luxuriant as a full blown cabbage. in those days, the heart of a lover could not contain more than one lady at a time; whereas the heart of a modern gallant has often room enough to accommodate half a dozen