“the tyger” by william blake tyger tyger, burning bright, in the forests of the night; what immortal hand or eye, could frame thy fearful symmetry? in what distant deeps or skies burnt the fire of thine eyes! on what wings dare he aspire? what the hand, dare seize the fire? and what shoulder, & what art, could twist the sinews of thy heart? and when thy heart began to beat, what dread hand? & what dread feet? what the hammer? what the chain, in what furnace was thy brain? what the anvil? what dread grasp, dare its deadly terrors clasp? when the stars threw down their spears and water’d heaven with their tears: did he smile his work to see? did he who made the lamb make thee? tyger, tyger burning bright, in the forests of the night: what immortal hand or eye, dare frame thy fearful symmetry? **in “the tyger,” what conclusion can be drawn about the tiger’s creator? ** a) its creator is happy and easy-going. b) its creator is passionate and energetic. c) its creator is aggressive and mean. d) its creator is clever and charming.

In "there will come soft rains," why does the author turn the house into a mechanical creature? a. to stress how well run the future will be b. to keep readers from realizing at the start that no humans are present c. to stress how scientific advances can create the perfect society d. to compare the present with the earlier, non-mechanical times

Describe the situation precisely what time of day and year is it where is the speaker what is happening to the weather

Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence in this excerpt from abraham lincoln's second inaugural address conveys that he wanted the us civil war to end as soon as possible? neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just inging their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh" if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether." reset next