From The Seventh Canto by Ezra Pound

And all that day, another day:
Thin husks I had known as men,
Dry casques2 of departed locusts
speaking a shell of speech . . .
Propped between chairs and table . . .
Words like the locust-shells, moved by no inner being,
A dryness calling for death.
Another day, between walls of a sham Mycenian,2
"Toc"3 sphinxes, sham-Memphis columns,
And beneath the jazz a cortex, a stiffness or stillness;
The older shell, varnished to lemon colour,
Brown-yellow wood, and the no colour plaster,
Dry professorial talk . . .
now stilling the ill beat music,
House expulsed4 by this house, but not extinguished.
Square even shoulders and the satin skin,
Gone cheeks of the dancing woman,
Still the old dead dry talk, gassed out
It is ten years gone, makes stiff about her a glass,
A petrification of air.
The old room of the tawdry class asserts itself.
The young men, never!
Only the husk of talk.

1. helmets
2. late Bronze Age era (circa 1600–1100 BCE)
3. imitation (French)
4. pushed out

What does the poet's use of ellipses suggest in the poem?
A. a disdain for certain men's old ideas
B. a voice pausing to emphasize a point
C. a sense of frustration about speech
D. a dryness of life like objects in the poem

In sonnet xix, at what point in his life did the speaker’s eyesight fail? in late spring at midlife when he lost his talent

Which neoplantonic ideas did augustine borrow and express in book xi of confessions

Iwill give brainliest1.when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see the tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that fun town is closed to colored children, and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky… •type of figurative language: •meaning of figurative language: •effect on tone and mood: •effect on audience: 2.like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured. •type of figurative language: •meaning of figurative language: •effect on tone and mood: •effect on audience: 3.over and over again i have found myself asking: "who worships here? who is their god? where were their voices when the lips of governor barnett dripped with words of interposition and nullification? where were their voices of support when tired, bruised, and weary negro men and women decided to rise from the dark dungeons of complacency to the bright hills of creative protest? " •type of figurative language: •meaning of figurative language: •effect on tone and mood: