Question

Read these lines from "Helen Grey":

strain the cord until it snaps,
Don't split the sound heart with your wedge,

How do these lines help develop the main point or theme of the poem?

Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

Answer 1

no i have to write it out

Answer 2

@crazycathatesmath14

Answer 3

can you post the full poem?

Answer 4

you cant really answer it unless u read the whole thing

Answer 5

yes

Answer 6

okay cool

Answer 7

Helen Grey
By Christina Georgina Rossetti

Because one loves you, Helen Grey,
Is that a reason you should pout,
And like a March wind veer about,
And frown, and say your shrewish say?
Don't strain the cord until it snaps,
Don't split the sound heart with your wedge,
Don't cut your fingers with the edge
Of your keen wit; you may, perhaps.

Because you're handsome, Helen Grey,
Is that a reason to be proud?
Your eyes are bold, your laugh is loud,
Your steps go mincing on their way;
But so you miss that modest charm
Which is the surest charm of all:
Take heed, you yet may trip and fall,
And no man care to stretch his arm.

stoop from your cold height, Helen Grey,
Come down, and take a lowlier place;
Come down, to fill it now with grace;
Come down you must perforce some day:
For years cannot be kept at bay,
And fading years will make you old;
Then in their turn will men seem cold,
When you yourself are nipped and grey.

Read these lines from "Helen Grey":

strain the cord until it snaps,
Don't split the sound heart with your wedge,

How do these lines help develop the main point or theme of the poem?

Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

Answer 8

hold on let me read it lol

Answer 9

I think that the line:
strain the cord until it snaps,
Don't split the sound heart with your wedge,
helps develop the main theme because the narrator is telling Helen not to be so prideful because someone loves her, or because she is handsome. the narrator does not want Helen to lose herself becasuase she believes she is handsome or because someone loves her.

This is just my personal opinion, you need to put it into your own words! :)

Answer 10

I don't know if im correct but you could give that a shot!

Answer 11

thank you and love the pic lol that us to be mine lol the girl looks almost like me

Answer 12

ok cool , i was glad to be of a service lol :)