Plz ill give a ! who seems to be the speaker of the poem? in what point of view is the poem spoken? what words or phrases support your answers to these questions? love is not all: it is not meat nor drink nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; nor yet a floating spar to men that sink and rise and sink and rise and sink again; love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; yet many a man is making friends with death even as i speak, for lack of love alone. it well may be that in a difficult hour, pinned down by pain and moaning for release, or nagged by want past resolution’s power, i might be driven to sell your love for peace, or trade the memory of this night for food. it well may be. i do not think i would.

What does the author see as the main cause for why students don’t really see shakespeare as a real, flawed human being? we shouldn’t shy away from discussing our literary heroes’ flaws. if nothing else, the knowledge of their failures us appreciate what success and greatness these authors did achieve. often our hero-worship keeps us from truly seeing the complexity of a great author. thus, i would argue, nothing would be better for high school students than to take shakespeare down a peg or two. a) the fact that students never learn enough about shakespeares biography b) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s comedies while in school c) the fact that students are never assigned to read any shakespeare while in high school d) the fact that students only read shakespeare’s greatest works in school and thus never see his weaknesses

1. a poem that tells a story irony 2. taking on human characteristics narrative 3. a direct comparison between two things personification 4. words that are opposite the thoughts in a speaker's mind simile 5. implied comparison introduced with "as" and "like idiom 6. one's own manner of speaking metaphor

In the first line of each stanza, the author follows the pattern of a noun followed by a pair of adjectives. what is the purpose of this pattern?