ah, love, let us be true    to one another! for the world, which seems    to lie before us like a land of dreams,    so various, so beautiful, so new,    hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,    nor certitude, nor peace, nor for pain;    and we are here as on a darkling plain    swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,    where ignorant armies clash by night. which one of the following statements best characterizes arnold's view of the world? a. the world is a confusing and hostile place. b. the world is not a beautiful place. c. the world is made for lovers. d. the world is just a dream.

what are the questions?

the story is not posted

awnser:

the thousand and one nights – or, as i prefer to call them in the following forpurely practical reasons: the arabian nights – as we perceive them three hundredyears after antoine galland’s epochal french adaptation bear a distinct arabicimprint. meanwhile, the commonly accepted model for their textual historyacknowledges various stages in the conceptualization and effective formation ofboth the collection’s characteristic frame story and the embedded repertoire. thevast majority of tales in the preserved manuscripts of the nights has beenintegrated into the collection during two periods of arabic influence, the so-calledbaghdad and cairo periods (gerhardt 1963: 115–374). these “arabic” stages arepreceded by an iranian version, probably dating to pre-islamic times, which in itsturn profits from both structural devices and narrative contents originating fromindian tradition. considering the eminent position that iran and iranian culturehold in the early stages of the textual history of the arabian nights, surprisinglyfew details are known concerning the collection’s relation to and its actualposition within the iranian cultural context. in the following, i will discuss linksbetween the arabian nights and iranian culture on several levels. in surveyingthese links, i will treat five major areas: (1) the iranian prototype of the nights; (2) tales of alleged persian origin; (3) persian characters within the tales; (4)persian translations of the arabian nights; and (5) the position of the arabiannights in modern iran

pennfoster ? here you go

1. heat

2. acquitted, exonerated

3. rough

4. common

5. hate

6. harmful, toxic

7. public

8. apart

9. despise

10. careless

11. put

12. received

13. become

14. received

15. persuaded

16. make