The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he
complains of my gab and my loitering.
i too am not a bit tamed, i too am untranslatable,
i sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
what is one purpose of the personification in this poem?

a. to link two unlike concepts: mountains and burial mounds

b. to make an animal seem like a peer to the speaker

c. to compare the speaker to a force of nature

d. to make a connection between the speaker and the reader

Study the editorial cartoon mars probe by mike keefe. how does the alien with the baseball bat contribute to the effectiveness of the political cartoon? it suggests that aliens are like people because they play baseball, a human sport. it uses humor to show that unknown factors keep damaging the probes humans send. it shows how to cope with the surface of mars, which is rocky and full of craters. it exaggerates the size of the bat in relation to the mars probe in the cartoon.

Dylan is of course enormously influential. springsteen, who referred to him as “the father of my country” in his new born to run memoir, is one of many who were once known as “new dylans.” every singer-songwriter with a personal story to tell owes him a debt, and hearing the above lines read or sung aloud, with their knack for internal rhyme, call up inevitable parallels to the dense playful language of rap. –“dylan's nobel prize settles debate: rock lyrics are poetry,” dan deluca which piece of evidence supports the claim that dylan’s rock lyrics are like poetry? he is enormously influential. his lyrics feature internal rhyme. singer-songwriters owe him a debt. someone called him “the father of my country.”

1. the group spurned the newcomer and accepted him gladly.