1.in 2-3 sentences, answer what the author likely purpose is in having the speaker address “you”within the poem?
2.explain what would happen if the point of view of the speaker that was identified during your first reading was changed? Identify a different point of view and explain how that changed would impact a poem.

The travels of marco polo.what is the author’s purpose for writing this text?

Used for an event that has been completed before the present moment in time. simple past past perfect perfect progressive past perfect progressive

Read the following excerpt from "dark tower" by claude mckay before you choose your answer. "we shall not always plant while others reap the golden increment of bursting fruit, nor always countenance, abject and mute, that lesser men should hold their brothers cheap; not everlastingly while others sleep shall we beguile their limbs with mellow flute, not always bend to some more subtle brute. we were not made eternally to weep. the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark, white stars, is no less lovely being dark; and there are buds that cannot bloom at all in light, but crumple, piteous, and fall. so in the dark we hid the heart that bleeds, and wait, and tend our agonizing needs." in context, the expression "the night, whose sable breast relieves the stark,/ white stars, is no less lovely being dark; " is best interpreted as a. the light of the stars overpowers the black of night b. the black of night overpowers the light of the stars c. black and white contribute equally to the beauty of the night sky d. black and white continuously compete for prominence in the night sky