Question

Read “The Snowstorm” in your reading packet. Then answer the question below.

What does the poet contrast in lines 7 – 9?
Question 2 options:

1) the importance of friends with the importance of family

2) the frustration of the house mates with the calm of the fire

3) the length of the storm with the short life of the fire

4) the stillness within the house with the wildness outside

Answer 1

plz help

Answer 2

nvr mind this site really sucks

Answer 3

@Lxdrpr

Answer 4

The Snowstorm
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,
Arrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields,
Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air
Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,
5 And veils the farmhouse at the garden’s end.
The sled and traveler stopped, the courier’s feet
Delayed, all friends shut out, the house mates sit
Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed
In a tumultuous privacy of storm.
10 Come see the north wind’s masonry.
Out of an unseen quarry evermore
Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
Curves his white bastions1
with projected roof
Round every windward stake, or tree, or door.
15 Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work
So fanciful, so savage, nought cares he
For number or proportion. Mockingly,
On coop or kennel he hangs Parian2
wreaths;
A swan-like form invests the hidden thorn;
20 Fills up the farmer’s lane from wall to wall.
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the farmer’s sighs; and at the gate
A tapering turret overtops the work.
And when his hours are numbered, and the world
Is all his own, retiring, as he were not,
25 Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art
To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone,
Built in an age, the mad wind’s nightwork,
The frolic architecture of the snow.

Answer 5

so for question one do they want you to compare the relationships?

Answer 6

its a metaphor s in the lines 7-9 I was looking for the metaphor but I couldn't find it thats what I need hlp with

Answer 7

It starts with Delayed and ends with storm

Answer 8

I think its 2 i just needed reassurance

Answer 9

I think so im not 100% sure though

Answer 10

thank you ill just keep that as the answer do you think you could help me with the other ones

Answer 11

sure

Answer 12

thnx ill just open another post thing and "tag" you lol

Answer 13

ok