Poem 1: Alone
I stood on the soft shingle of sand where the sea swept my legs with salt and wet.
Alone I walked under the arch of night where stars fluttered between treetops in the wind.
And a long memory it is I have how the sea and the night were kind.
Carl Sandburg

Poem 2:
Alone
I’ve listened: and all the sounds I heard
Were music—wind, and stream, and bird.
With youth who sang from hill to hill
I’ve listened: my heart is hungry still.
I’ve looked: the morning world was green;
Bright roofs and towers of town I’ve seen;
And stars, wheeling through wingless night.
I’ve looked: and my soul yet longs for light.
I’ve thought: but in my sense survives
Only the impulse of those lives
That were my making. Hear me say
‘I’ve thought!’—and darkness hides my day.
Siegfried Sassoon
Which theme is expressed by one poem, but not the other?

Solitude is a hard to endure when it reminds people of how alone they are in the world.
Solitude awakens the senses to the beauty of nature and returns the spirit to a state of peace.
Solitude is a painful state that wears down the soul and therefore should be avoided.
Solitude can be intensely rewarding if you avoid analyzing your life while you're alone.

sentences vary by structure as well as by function. there are compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

simple sentence

i like to read.

a simple sentence has one independent clause.

compound sentence

i like to read, and i also like to write.

a compound sentence includes more than one independent clause, connected by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, nor, or, so, or yet).

complex sentence

i prefer to read books that are bestsellers.

a complex sentence includes one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. (a dependent clause is one that cannot stand alone.) types of dependent clauses include relative clauses (i kicked the boy who pinched me), adverb clauses (i am going home now because i have a curfew), and noun clauses (i don't know what to do next).

compound-complex sentence

although i prefer to read current bestsellers, i do like to read old agatha christie mysteries, and i also like some 20th-century science fiction.

compound-complex sentences take a bunch of clauses (multiple independent clauses, and one or more dependent clauses) and toss them together like a salad. although these sentences take practice to write in a grammatically correct fashion, they can hold a tremendous amount of meaning, and are common in academic writing.

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literary elements are the essential parts needed to tell any story; they include theme, conflict, characterization, setting, style, and tone. characterization is used by authors to make characters come to life by either describing or highlighting characters traits. characterization is certainly one major literary element harper lee ties to key coming-of-age scenes in the novel to kill a mockingbird and develop her coming-of-age theme.throughout the novel, all three of the major child characters