Reread the last sentence of paragraph 5:
"His father's words, like
distant thunder that now
echoed through the streets
of Harlem, still rumbled
softly in his ears?" Why do
you think the author
compared his father's words
to thunder instead of
something else that
rumbles?

hold on ill find it

the group received an extra pound of butter for christmas.

the annex was delighted to hear that we'll all be receiving an extra quarter pound of butter for christmas.

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

reading poetry is challenging when you don't have or very little of social context and culture schema.

solution: read the introduction, the norm, or even explaination if you still dont get it.