What does the woman mean on page 2 when she compares reading a book to "watching an
eagle try to fly with a string of tin cans tangled
around its feet"?
The book's dense and awkward language slows
down the story
WILL / Without looking up!
Uh huh
WOMAN
The last book he told me to read was such drudgery that I
never made it past the first twenty pages too many
extended metaphors and twenty-dollar words. Somewhere
underneath it all was a plot but I felt like I was watching an
eagle try to fly with a string of tin cans tangled around its
teet, is that book the same way?
WILL looks up briefly!
What? No, it's pretty compelling
(Continues reading /
WOMAN
Maybe I would like it then It's funny, Narek's books are
nothing like that They're real page-turners. Have you read
any of his Narek Avakian
The book contains rough language that is offensive.
The book's vivid and colorful illustrations add to the
story
The book is not written in the author's native
language
3 4 5

it exposes the hypocrisy of religion and christian supporters of slavery

your answer would be: d) eye contact

wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human