Read the passage from "beauty":
wind sighing, rain falling,
or a singer chanting
which best identifies the sense that this use of figurative language appeals to?
a, it best appeals to touch; it allows the reader to feel the wetness of the rain.
b, it best appeals to sound; it allows the reader to hear the sighing and chanting.
c, it best appeals to smell; it allows the reader to experience the scents the wind brings.
d, it best appeals to taste; it allows the reader to taste the rain.

Read this adapted excerpt from a famous poem by john keats. this poem is about a beautiful vase with intricate shapes and patterns. you, silent form, do tease us out of thought as does etemity: cold pastorall when old age shall this generation waste, you shall remain in the middle of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom you say "beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know what is the poet saying when he writes that "old age shall this generation waste"? the poet is expressing his dread of growing older the poet is mourning the changes he sees in his "generation." the poet is saying that beauty is illusionary and short-lived. the poet is saying that people don't live long; life is brief