Which lines from the text best support this theme? “the wind that carried west from ilium brought me to ismarus, on the far shore, a strongpoint on the coast of cicones. i stormed that place and killed the men who fought.” “i drove them, all three wailing, to the ships, tied them down under their rowing benches, and called the rest: all hands aboard; come, clear the beach and no one taste the lotus, or you lose your hope of home.” he drew to his fist the cruel head of an arrow for antinous just as the young man leaned to lift his beautiful drinking cup,  embossed, two-handled, golden: the cup was in his fingers: the wine was even at his lips: and did he dream of death? “spare your own people. as for ourselves, we'll make restitution of wine and meat consumed, and add, each one, a tithe of twenty oxen with gifts of bronze and gold to warm your heart.”

What do we know about the mother in “two kinds”? select all that apply. she came from china. she had two daughters who died. her mother, father, and first husband are dead. she is part japanese.

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky

What does robert frost accomplish by using blank verse in his poems he mimics the sound of natural speech. he establishes a sense of formality. he establishes order through rhyme. he makes his poems original by breaking the rules.