The speaker of the poem seems to make the best of an unpleasant situation. How do you think she does this? What specific steps does she take to improve her situation—and what else can she do to make it better? In 250 words or more, analyze the speaker’s approach to facing challenges. Cite text evidence to support your answer. Choices by Nikki Giovanni

Two or three months had gone by without any mention of my being a

prodigy again. And then one day my mother was watching The Ed Sullivan

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on TV. The TV was old and the sound kept shorting out. Every time

my mother got halfway up from the sofa to adjust the set, the sound would go

back on and Ed would be talking. As soon as she sat down, Ed would go silent

again. She got up, the TV broke into loud piano music. She sat down. Silence.

Up and down, back and forth, quiet and loud. It was like a stiff, embraceless

dance between her and the TV set. Finally she stood by the set with her hand

on the sound dial.

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wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human