How does line 9 help develop the tone of the poem? A. It contributes to a respectful tone.
B. It contributes to a formal tone.
C. It contributes to a resentful tone.
D. It contributes to a casual tone.
This World

By Mary Oliver

2004

Mary Oliver (1935-2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award, as well as the Pulitzer Prize. In this poem, a speaker describes the nature that surrounds them. As you read, take notes on the figurative language the poet uses to describe nature.

[1] I would like to write a poem about the world that has

in it

nothing fancy.
But it seems impossible.
Whatever the subject, the morning sun

[5] glimmers it.
The tulip feels the heat and flaps its petals open and

becomes a star.
The ants bore into the peony1 bud and there is a dark

pinprick well of sweetness.
As for the stones on the beach, forget it.

[10] Each one could be set in gold.
So I tried with my eyes shut, but of course the birds

were singing.
And the aspen trees were shaking the sweetest music

out of their leaves.

[15] And that was followed by, guess what, a momentous2 and

beautiful silence

as comes to all of us, in little earfuls, if we’re not too

hurried to hear it.
As for spiders, how the dew hangs in their webs

[20] even if they say nothing, or seem to say nothing.
So fancy is the world, who knows, maybe they sing.
So fancy is the world, who knows, maybe the stars sing too,

and the ants, and the peonies, and the warm stones,
so happy to be where they are, on the beach, instead of being

[25] locked up in gold.

1. a type of flower

2. Momentous (adjective) of great importance or significance

read this passage from the crisis. what rationale is paine using for going to war with great britain? my own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. not all the treasures of the world, so far as i believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for i think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am i to suffer it? what signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? if we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.

it is waged war against an army of countrymen

it would lead to independence from britain

it would be an offensive war

it would be a defensive war

he describes the bird as "stately."

i hope this

~ash belle

noo because no animal can leave it's mother land and freedom even we can't leave some days in a single room by leaving home it is wrong but needed to protect them

the significance of the title, "the passing", is related to the fact that the main characters, who are three african-american descendant women, are passing as white. this means that, because of their light-coloured skins they look like white women. one of the three friends, clare, is married to a white man and she lives in a white community and she has never told her husband that she is black. the title can easily be connected to the idea of pretending to be someone you are not and of losing your real identity in order to be accepted by society.