Read the poem "monet’s ‘waterlilies’” by robert hayden. 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. here space and time exist in light the eye like the eye of faith believes. the seen, the known dissolve in iridescence, become illusive flesh of light that was not, was, forever is. o light beheld as through refracting tears. here is the aura of that world each of us has lost. here is the shadow of its joy. what evidence supports the conclusion that the poem is written in free verse? select two options. there are three stanzas. there is no rhyme scheme. the lines are unequal in length. there is a regular rhyme scheme. there is a pattern of stressed syllables. answers are 2 and 3

Robert Hayden was born on August 4, 1913 and died on February 25, 1980. He was an American poet, essayist, and educator. He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 to 1978, a role today known as US Poet Laureate. He was the first African-American writer to hold the office.

Robert Hayden was born in Detroit, Michigan, son of Ruth and Asa Sheffey. The couple separated before his birth. He was taken in by a foster family next door, Sue Ellen Westerfield and William Hayden, and grew up in a Detroit ghetto nicknamed "Paradise Valley". The Haydens' eternally belligerent marriage, coupled with Ruth Sheffey’s competition for her son's affections, made for a traumatic childhood. Witnessing fights and suffering beatings, Hayden lived in a house troubled with chronic anger. His childhood traumas resulted in debilitating bouts of depression that he later called "my dark nights of the soul".

Before answering the question, I would like to mention what we call free verse poetry. It is poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm, and does not rhyme with fixed forms. Such poems are without rhythm and rhyme schemes, do not follow regular rhyme scheme rules, yet still provide artistic expression.

We can conclude that the present poem is written in free verse because:

There is no rhyme scheme.

The lines are unequal in length.

The other options present limitations or patterns which are the opposite characteristics of free verse.

There is no rhyme scheme.

The lines are unequal in length.

Free verse poetry does not have any restrictions or limitations. The other options speak of specific poetic structures. The number of stanzas does not matter to free verse poetry. There is no regular rhyme scheme or pattern of stressed syllables in free verse. In free verse poetry, the lines can be any length. There is also no specific meter in free verse poetry.

arah orne jewett first published "a white heron" in her 1886 collection, "a white heron and other stories." this short story tells the tale of what happens when sylvia, a 9-year-old girl living deep in the forest with her grandmother, meets a young hunter looking to capture, and kill, the white heron living in sylvia's woods. the climax occurs when sylvia must decide whether to him or protect the bird.

rising action

leading up to the climax of the story, the nameless young hunter befriends sylvia and her grandmother, mrs. tilly. he explains to mrs. tilly that he is bent on "stuffing and preserving" a little white heron that he believes lives near their cottage. mrs. tilly offers up that "[t]here ain't a foot o' ground" that sylvia doesn't know and suggests that she may be able to him find the bird.

climax

after following, but not really , the young hunter on his search for the heron, sylvia slips out of bed alone in the middle of the night to find the heron for herself. perched at the top of a gigantic pine tree, sylvia spots the heron, and its nest, in a dead hemlock tree across the way. the following morning she returns home to find her grandmother and the hunter waiting for her at the door. in the moment when she plans to tell the hunter where to find the heron, she suddenly decides to protect the heron and remain silent; even the promise of much needed money does not sway her.

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