Practice 3.2.9 Poems to chose from:
"The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop, "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold, "Night Funeral in Harlem" by Langston Hughes, "How Do I Love Thee?" (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Your assignment should include the following elements:
Eight annotations, each of which focuses on a separate line of the poem you've chosen from the list above
An introduction paragraph that explains the overall meaning of the poem and puts the annotations in context
The full text of the poem you've chosen, with clear indications of which lines each annotation explains
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Reread this portion of the excerpted text from common sense. men of passive tempers look somewhat lightly over the offenses of britain, and, still hoping for the best, are apt to call out, come, we shall be friends again for all this. but examine the passions and feelings of mankind. bring the doctrine of reconciliation to the touchstone of nature, and then tell me, whether you can hereafter love, honor, and faithfully serve the power that hath carried fire and sword into your land? if you cannot do all these, then are you only deceiving yourselves, and by your delay bringing ruin upon posterity. your future connection with britain, whom you can neither love nor honor, will be forced and unnatural, and being formed only on the plan of present convenience, will in a little time fall into a relapse more wretched than the first. what key concept about the relationship between an abusive government and its citizens does paine want readers to understand? use evidence from the text to support your response. your response should be one to two complete paragraphs.