Read the excerpt from midsummer by derek walcott.

their thick skulls bled with rancor
when the riot police and the skinheads exchanged quips
you could trace to the sonnets, or the moor’s eclipse.

what can be concluded about the speaker’s perspective by the allusions to sonnets and the moor’s eclipse?

the speaker thinks that most people in the riot have read shakespeare.
the speaker thinks that the riot police and skinheads have a common history.
the speaker believes that the riot police are witty and intelligent.
the speaker believes that the skinheads are solely responsible for the riots.

1. find at least 9 adjectives from this opening passage used to describe the setting of the story- "to build a fire" setting: day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. it was a steep bank, and he paused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. it was nine o'clock. there was no sun nor hint of sun, through there was not a cloud in the sky. it was a clear day, and yet there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, subtle gloom that made the day dark, and that was due to the absence of sun. this fact did not worry the man. he was used to the lack of sun. it had been days since he had seen the sun, and he knew that a few more days must pass before that cheerful orb, due south, would just peep above the sky-line and dip immediately from view.