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a life of adventure?

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how do the structures of "the glass of milk" and "the secret life of walter mitty" differ?

"the glass of milk" focuses on a problem in a character's life and how it gets resolved, but "the secret life of walter mitty" contrasts mitty's real life with his imaginary life.

"the glass of milk" begins with a description of the main character's background, but "the secret life of walter mitty" leaves readers with questions about who mitty really is.

"the glass of milk" describes in detail one specific event, but "the secret life of walter mitty" relays a story that occurs over time.

"the glass of milk" tells the story using flashback, but "the secret life of walter mitty" tells the story in chronological order.
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Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man