Read the poem "grass" and answer the question that follows.
pile the bodies high at austerlitz and waterloo.
shovel them under and let me work—
i am the grass; i cover all.
and pile them high at gettysburg
and pile them high at ypres and verdun.
shovel them under and let me work.
two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
what place is this?
where are we now?
i am the grass.
let me work.
what is the significance of the phrase "two years, ten years" in line 7?
the phrase describes the intervals between the wars.
the phrase stresses that grass needs time to do its work.
the phrase suggests that people quickly forget the past.
the phrase implies that time people heal their emotional wounds.

answer:

e

explanation:

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

wow there were a thousand people in the concert. that’s great