Question

1. Comfortable Old Chair A bird has a nest A fox has a lair A den is home If you're a bear. I have a comfortable old chair. Soft pillowed blue, a flowered cloud. The perfect place to read aloud to myself or silently letting long words run over me, letting the stories I have read make moving pictures in my head. New chairs are nice but mine is best. My spot to think in brood in rest to plot in dream in, many dreams, to scheme a few outlandish schemes in. Kings need crowns to be the king but me I can be anything any person anywhere if I just have my book and chair.

The Thin Dome
My neighbors play pool at night,
and Guitar Hero in the day.
They like to park their sports cars
to block our entire driveway.

I hear their teenage son
always busy at their hoop.
Their little rooster crows away
anytime in its coop.

I cannot nap; I cannot sleep.
I cannot move my home.
I even hear their oven beep—
my walls need a thicker dome.
What comparison can be made between the two poems?

They both discuss a part of the narrator's home life.
They both express strong emotions of the narrator.
They both discuss the comfort of the narrator's dome.
They both express anger at the noisy neighbors.

Answer 1

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B. They both express strong emotions of the narrator--I don't really see any "strong emotions" in the first poem. The first one has a bit calm and peaceful mood to it.

C. They both discuss the comfort of the narrator's dome--for the first one, yes. But for the second one, no. the narrator is very uncomfortable/irritated with his neighbors.

D. They both express anger at the noisy neighbors--this statement is false because the narrator in the first poem didn't even mention his neighbors. He only talked about his chair, lol.