1. Who is this poem about? 2. What event is the speaker describing?

3. What are the "Mourners" doing in lines 2-3?

4. How does the context of the first stanza help make meaning of the work "sense" (line 4)?

5. What happens to the speaker's mind?

6. What causes the speaker to feel this way?

7. What sounds does the speaker hear in stanzas 3 and 4?

8. What does the "plank" support in line 17?

9. How does the speaker use figurative language to describe his or her state of mind in lines 18-20?

10. How does Dickinson develop a metaphor over the course of the poem?

this about the funeral in the brain story

The tension we see between the two young people and okeke in “marriage is a private affair”

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. she dwelt among the untrodden ways beside the springs of dove, a maid whom there were none to praise and very few to love: a violet by a mossy stone half hidden from the eye! --fair as a star, when only one is shining in the sky. she lived unknown, and few could know when lucy ceased to be; but she is in her grave, and, oh, the difference to me! (wordsworth, “she dwelt among the untrodden ways”) which option explains a meaning implied by the use of the adjective untrodden in the excerpt? the maid was lost in the woods. the maid lived in a rural setting. the maid was a nature spirit. the maid suffered a life without joy.

Read the excerpt from act i of the importance of being earnest. lady bracknell. well, i must say, algernon, that i think it is high time that mr. bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. this shilly-shallying with the question is absurd. . i should be much obliged if you would ask mr. bunbury, from me, to be kind enough not to have a relapse on saturday, for i rely on you to arrange my music for me. it is my last reception, and one wants something that will encourage conversation, particularly at the end of the season when every one has practically said whatever they had to say, which, in most cases, was probably not much. what aspect of lady bracknell’s behavior does wilde use to poke fun at the importance placed on frivolous events in formal society? her concern with a party instead of mr. bunbury’s health her interest in playing classical music at her reception her jealousy over algernon’s friendship with the sickly mr. bunbury her concern about the health of algernon’s friend