Read the line from robert hayden's poem "monet's ‘waterlilies,'" then look at the painting water lilies by claude monet. o light beheld as through refracting tears. how does this line relate to the artwork? it points out that the artwork addresses a sad topic. it explains the importance of light to supporting life. it compares the painting to an emotional experience. it suggests that the scene was painted at night.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.