The salinas valley is in northern california. it is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the salina
river winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into monterey bay
i remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. i remember where a toad may live and what time the
birds awaken in the summer-and what trees and seasons smelled like how people looked and walked and smelled
even. the memory of odors is very rich.
source: steinbeck, john. east of eden new york: penguin group, 1952. google books. web. 16 may 2011
what is the narrator's point of view?
third-person omniscient
third-person limited
third-person objective
firct person

One element of lyric poetry is personal reflection. which lines in this poem most clearly illustrate that element? i wandered lonely as a cloudby william wordsworthi wandered lonely as a cloudthat floats on high o'er vales and hills, when all at once i saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils; beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze. continuous as the stars that shineand twinkle on the milky way. they stretched in never-ending linealong the margin of a bay: ten thousand saw i at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance. the waves beside them danced; but theyout-did the sparkling waves in glee: a poet could not but be gay. in such a jocund company: i gazed and gazed—but little thoughtwhat wealth the show to me had brought: for oft, when on my couch i liein vacant or in pensive mood, they flash upon that inward eyewhich is the bliss of solitude; and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils.