I've got a mule, her name is sal,
fifteen miles on the erie canal.
she's a good old worker and a good old pal,
fifteen miles on the erie canal.
we've hauled some barges in our day,
filled with lumber, coal, and hay,
and every inch of the way we know
from albany to buffalo.
low bridge, everybody down!
low bridge, for we're coming to a town!
and you'll always know your neighbor,
you'll always know your pal,
if you've ever navigated on the erie canal.
we better get on our way, old pal,
fifteen miles on the erie canal.
'cause you bet your life i'd never part with sal,
fifteen miles on the erie canal.
get up there, mule, here comes a lock,
we'll make rome about six o'clock,
one more trip and back we'll go,
right back home to buffalo.

1) what animals in this poem mostly about? use details from the poem to support your answer.

Sal, the mule

Get up there mule

Explanation:

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.