Today as the news from Selma and Saigon poisons the air like fallout,

I come again to see

the serene great picture that I love.

–“Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’”
Robert Hayden

How does the imagery used to describe the picture contrast with the imagery used to describe the news?

The picture is described as old, while the news is described as current.
The picture is described as calming, while the news is described as chaotic.
The picture is described as safe, while the news is described as dangerous.
The picture is described as pure, while the news is described as polluted.

The image of the observation balloons moving across the sunset is created using -no adjectives -few adjectives -many adjectives

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

Im giving 99 point to who answers first and fast you will submit your prewriting documents for the character analysis essay. submit your completed brainstorming and outline graphic organizers. the brainstorming graphic organizer should be complete and show evidence that you have considered several characters and their characteristics for your essay. the outline graphic organizer should demonstrate a plan for writing and include appropriate and sufficient textual support.