Why is "the village blacksmith" a part of america's national mythology? the blacksmith embodies the vast untapped potential and possibility of america as opposed to the limitations of europe. the blacksmith represents the technological advances that sparked america's growth and industrialization. the blacksmith represents the proud military history of the united states and its willingness to stand up to tyrants. the blacksmith embodies many core american values and is the backbone of a typical american community.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.she dwelt among the untrodden waysbeside the springs of dove,a maid whom there were none to praiseand very few to love: a violet by a mossy stonehalf hidden from the eye! fair as a star, when only oneis shining in the sky.she lived unknown, and few could knowwhen lucy ceased to be; but she is in her grave, and, oh,the difference to me! (wordsworth, "she dwelt among the untrodden ways")which option best explains how the choice of the word oh in the final stanza contributes to the poem's meaning? it was selected to create a regular end rhyme.it was selected to establish assonance in the line.it was selected to maintain the line's iambic structure.it was selected to stress the poet's sense of loss.

Why does the author introduce druse as lying in a “clump of laurel”? consider any symbolic or cultural meanings associated with this plant, and what significance it lends to this particular story. story "a horseman in the sky"

Select the correct answer. lyric poems often deal with intense emotions. which statement best describes the shift in emotion in "lift every voice and sing" as it moves from the first into the second stanza? lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty; let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the rolling sea. sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us, sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us, facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on till victory is won. stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the days when hope unborn had died; yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers sighed? we have come over a way that with tears has been watered, we have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered, out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. a. the joyful call of the first stanza gives way to a bitter recounting of history in the second. b. the first stanza's anger is replaced by the second stanza's resignation. c. the poem moves from a sense of wonder in the first stanza toward a sense of perplexity in the second. d. there is no change between the first stanza and the second. the emotions are the same in both.