What is the theme of this poem? : the city is full of streetlights, stoplights, floodlights making it hard to see the stars but ben and louie are out this summer night at ten pm in front of their apartment building, peering up at the sky anyway. ben asks if that's the constellation orion hovering over there just above that billboard louie shrugs because he doesn't know for sure he asks how many light-years to the edge of the universe and what's beyond the edge when you get there if you could get there (which you probably can't but if you could) ben says he doesn't know for sure either it's a vast place, the universe, but what's beyond it must be vaster still and they know they should go inside and get ready for bed but it's too wonderful out here below the faint glow of the stars and they just can't

The theme is to enjoy the simple things in life such as the stars and each other. The poem shows that the characters should be doing something else but they prefer to stay under the stars enjoying them

Explanation:

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)