Why do you suppose Vonnegut chose to place the setting of this story in front of a television set? What message(s) do you think he was trying to convey?

Although william carlos williams rejected traditional verse forms he still believed that is was important to use poetic devices to distinguish verse from prose.

The gift of the magi analyze the various characters in the story. list which character types—dynamic, round, static, and flat—you observed in the story. cite evidence to support your response.

How are w. h auden’s “musée des beaux arts” and william carlos williams’s “landscape with the fall of icarus” similar?