14. what does the phrase "untenanted by any tangible form in para
intruder?
a. the intruder has no physical form and there
physical form and therefore cannot be restrained, which makes it similar
to death and disease.
b. the intruder is able to vanish whe
truder is able to vanish when it is attacked, which implies that it comes from anoth
world, possibly the land of the dead.
c. the phrase conveys the extreme violence with
veys the extreme violence with which the revelers handle the intruder, who is
seemingly left without a body.
meruders body consists of disease-ridden vapors, which the prince and other revelers
unwittingly release by attacking it.

a. The intruder has no physical form and therefore cannot be restrained, which makes it similar  to death and disease.

Explanation:

Edger Allen Poe's short story The Masque of the Red Death shows Prince Prospero attempting to avoid the Red death that plagues everyone and everywhere. He holds a masquerade ball in his alley, where all the rich and noblemen were holed up in order to avoid being infected.

The given phrase if from paragraph 14 where Prince Prospero encountered the "intruder". But it only killed him, for the Intruder seems to have no form or shape, "Untenanted" by a definitive size or entity. This signifies that the intruder has no physical form, thus impossible to be restrained. This also implies that it is similar to death and disease, for they both have no physical form and can be upon anyone.

Thus, the correct answer is option a.

the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.

a is is the correct answer