To complete this assignment, you should rewrite "The Pardoner's Tale" in a narrative that takes place in modern times. Use your best descriptive writing to make this an interesting and believable piece of writing for the reader. Before you start writing, think about the following questions:
Could the events in this story still happen today? What would likely be different? What would be the same?
How might you modernize some of the events in the story? (Think: Internet, cell phones, transportation differences, etc.)

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your answer is a) the metaphor suggests that the poetic themes are serious and dark.

collins is comparing the poem to a dark room. he is suggesting that the poems theme is serious and wants you to understand it. you don't need to understand the poet in order to understand the poem. you also don't need to move around while reading it. he is simply saying the poem has a dark and serious theme.

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wow there were a thousand people in the concert. that’s great

even though there may be variations in human emotions over time, the poem “ a contribution to statistics” by wislawa symborska suggests that the only unchangeable characteristic is mortality.

the author poses a distinction between the approximate and non-approximate numbers which correspond to our need for certainty in life and the difficulty of achieving it. our efforts to measure the exact often fail because the world is not always clearly structured .the poem seems to imply   that the only thing that is certain and has an exact number is death.