20 1. stephen crane’s poem “to the maiden” reflects the perspectives of two different people. who are the two people? what are their viewpoints? why do they view the sea differently?type your answer here. (score for question 2: of 15 points) 2. think about frost’s poem “mending wall.” what does “good fences make good neighbors” mean? why does the speaker disagree with his neighbor about the fence?type your answer here. (score for question 3: of 25 points) 3. the poems “we real cool” and “the negro speaks of rivers” use a viewpoint that is unusual in this unit. what is the unusual viewpoint? in each poem, whom does that viewpoint represent? how does the viewpoint relate to the theme of each of the two poems?type your answer here.

1) The two perspectives are of the maiden and the sailor. They each view the sea in different ways. The maiden is content to walk the shoreline and gaze at the grandeur of the sea. She prefers to be away from the sea when it is rough and stormy. To the sailor, the sea is his livelihood. He must work the sea in all kinds of weather. It is not enough for him to admire the sea: he must also respect it.

2) Good fences make good neighbors basically means that the neighbor wants minimal contact with the narrator. He would rather see a fence than his neighbor. Frost was commenting on the decline of community and the rise of this isolationist way of thinking. He disagrees with his neighbor because he sees the wall as an unnecessary barrier between them.

3) The poems “We Real Cool” and “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” use a viewpoint that is unusual in this unit. The unusual viewpoint is this: Both Brooks and Hughes are calling for a change in the lives and attitudes of their fellow African-Americans -  and they have to do it. These types of positive pieces of art might well have been essential pieces to unite the black community in the call for civil rights.