Read this passage:

feel the fire at his neck and see how casually
he glances up and is caught, wondrously tunneling
into that hot eye. who cares that he fell back to the sea?

anne sexton, "to a friend whose work has come to triumph"
what different interpretation of the icarus myth does sexton offer?
a. that icarus should not have flown so close to the sun
b. that icarus was punished for attempting to be godlike by flying
c. that icarus's pride and arrogance caused his eventual downfall
d. that the success of icarus's flight is more important than his death

Match the bolded words in the excerpts to their contextual meanings. unoriginal well-groomed numerous he was a gentleman from sole to crown, clean favored and imperially slim. (from "richard cory" by edwin arlington robinson) this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile, and mouth with myriad subtleties. (from "we wear the mask" by paul lawrence dunbar) . .if it must, these things are important not because a high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are useful. when they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand. . (from "poetry" by marianne moore)