Read this excerpt from "ulysses" by alfred, lord tennyson:

in offices of tenderness, and pay
meet adoration to my household gods,
when i am gone. he works his work, i mine.

there lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:

there gloom the dark broad seas. my mariners,
souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me--
that ever with a frolic welcome took
the thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
free hearts, free foreheads-- you and i are old;

what image does this line create of the ships, which is enhanced by the caesura?

there lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:

a. it states in a matter-of-fact way that going out to sea is what ships do.

b. it points out how powerless the ships are as they meet the dangers of the ocean.

c. it enhances the mystery surrounding traveling on the ocean.

d. it calls attention to the impending disaster awaiting ships leaving port.
it emphasizes the urgency that is typical of sailors and their travels

For plato, its actually c. It enhances the mystery surrounding traveling on the ocean...

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i have read the novel roll of thunder hear my cry by mildred d. taylor.

1. this isn't like any other story i've read or watched because it is about a black family in mississippi right after slavery in the u.s. had become illegal. most of the novels i have read were about slavery. another point is that the author of the novel used symbolism in a way i haven't seen before. for example she uses thunder as something negative meaning something bad will happen. but by the end of the novel, she made thunder a good thing.

2.   one character that changed during the novel was stacey. stacey is the eldest child of the black logan family. around the begging of the novel stacey was avoiding the white boy jeremy simms. he had a dislike for jeremy's family. but at the end of the novel stacey began to like jeremy.

3. the author starts the novel with the problem that the children of the logan family have to avoid the white kid school bus while walking to school.