Read the poem. This Is My Letter to the World
by Emily Dickinson

This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me—
The simple News that Nature told—
With tender Majesty

Her Message is committed
To Hands I cannot see—
For love of Her—Sweet—countrymen—
Judge tenderly—of Me

Part A

What is a central idea of "This Is My Letter to the World"?

The natural and spiritual worlds are interconnected.

Nature is both complex and forceful.

Writing is a lonely profession.

A writer’s greatest desire is acceptance.
Question 2
Part B

Which detail from the poem best develops the central idea in Part A?

“This is my letter to the World / That never wrote to Me—"

“Her Message is committed / To Hands I cannot see—”

“The simple News that Nature told— / With tender Majesty”

“For love of Her—Sweet—countrymen— / Judge tenderly—of Me”

During which stage of the listening process would you pay close attention to verbal and nonverbal signals? taking notes evaluation active involvement preparation

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

Leslie would probably have come with us if she didn’t work all summer. which is the verb phrase?