Grandfather taught us the prayers they would say for the
corn harvest each year. as he talked, he rattled a few dried
kernels in one of his wrinkled hands. i tried to picture those
hands sowing seeds long ago, when grandfather and the
other wampanoag people lived in massachusetts.
which detail most clearly gives this
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a. the thoughts on the importance of harvest prayers
b. the mention of each year" and "long ago"
c. the fact about where the wampanoag lived
d. the image of the grandfather's hands
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1.   in sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. the speaker says “then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.   through his defeat of finding words to describe his love, he shows his love for her.

2.   instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her.   at the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. so instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her.

3.   the beloved asked the speaker to describe how he feels about her. she begins to describe what she feels but "drop the torch" and says that she can't do it because the words "hid in me out of reach." the the speaker says "nay, let the silence of my womanhood command my woman-love to thy belief" and that her silence will have to be the answer to his question.

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