read these stanzas from the poem "ballad" by paul laurence dunbar.

i know my love is true,
and oh the day is fair.
the sky is dear and blue,
the flowers are rich of hue,
the air i breathe is rare,
i have no grief or care;
for my own love is true,
and oh the day is fair.

my love is false i find,
and oh the day is dark.
blows sadly down the wind,
while sorrow holds my mind;
i do not hear the lark,
for quenched is life's dear spark,—
my love is false i find,
and oh the day is dark!

what is the central idea of this poem?

the narrator’s moods are altered with the changing weather.
the narrator finds a new love for every season of the year.
the narrator contemplates his love in the morning and the night.
the narrator’s mood is determined by the state of the relationship with his love.

What word or words suggest they have a monotonous marriage? in the lamb to the slaughter

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." lately, i’ve been giving more thought to the kind of english my mother speaks. like others, i have described it to people as “broken” or “fractured” english. but i wince when i say that. it has always bothered me that i can think of no other way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. what best supports the inference that tan believes nonstandard english is no less valid than standard english? tan spends a lot of time thinking about her mother’s “fractured” english. tan has trouble thinking of descriptive words when she is writing. tan’s american education makes it difficult for her to understand her mother. tan winces when she describes her mother’s english as “broken.”

Then, from heaven, the voice of the god called to gilgamesh: "hurry, attack, attack humbaba while the time is right, before he enters the depths of the forest, before he can hide there and wrap himself in his seven auras with their paralyzing glare. he is wearing just one now. attack him! now! " –gilgamesh: a new english translation, stephen mitchell identify a feature of epic poetry in the passage. in three to four sentences, explain its impact on the epic's plot.