Read this excerpt from Mukherjee's memoir and answer the question. I have found my way to the United States after many transit stops. The unglimpsed phantom Faridpur and the
all too real Manhattan have merged as "desh." I am an American. I am an American writer, in the American
mainstream, trying to extend it. This is a vitally important statement for me - I am not an Indian writer, not an
expatriate. I am an Immigrant; my Investment is in the American reality, not the Indian
It took me ten painful years, from the early seventies to the early eighties, to overthrow the smothering
tyranny of nostalgia
In the above excerpt, Mukherjee's imagery of overthrow the smothering tyranny of nostalgia" means what?
Sentimental attachment to her country of birth stifted her ability to express herself as an American writer.
She regrets losing her cultural identity as an Indian
Immigrants have to learn to forget their past in order to be successful in America
The United States enabled her to escape the political and artistic oppression she suffered before emigrating

What do you think tennyson is saying about the role of the artist and the connection of the artist to his or her society? cite evidence from the poem to support your view. your answer should be at least one hundred words.

According to the speaker, decisions in west african villages are made through discussions led by heroic nobles wise historians elected representatives appointed chiefs

Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. 1. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) 2. o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) 3. nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) 4. at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet