he lemon tree billiards house by Cedric Yamanaka was written in the 1990s, long after the american literary era of regionalism and realism was over. why might the writers of the unit 4 curriculum choose to include this story even tho it isn't from the time period the unit focuses on? find at least 2 reasons.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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the two sonnets of sidney most closely follows the division between the octave and the sestet are the astrophel and stella sonnets.