Read the lines from robert hayden’s poem "monet’s ‘waterlilies,’” then look at the detail from claude monet’s painting water lilies. today as the news from selma and saigon poisons the air like fallout, i come again to see the serene, great picture that i love. why does the speaker like to view monet’s water lilies? to view art purely for art’s sake to escape unpleasant news to be exposed to stark reality to escape poisonous air

He now spent his days in his house, from room to room.which verb best completes the sentence?

Some one drawing water and my theater placed my hand under the spout. as the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water , first slowly , then rapidly . i stood still ,my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers . suddenly i felt misty consciousness as of soothing forgotten --a thrill of returning thought and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me this passage from the stoyof my life is an wxample of which element of plotclimax action

Which two lines in this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich together use symbolism to indicate that death is approaching?