"Failing and Flying" includes the lines, "Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. / It's the same when love comes to an end." Then the poem's speaker describes lovely, fleeting moments from an ended relationship and asks: "how can they say the relationship failed?" Gilbert's speaker counters "I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell, / but just coming to the end of his triumph." Do you agree or disagree with Gilbert? Does an intimate relationship need to last forever to be successful? Try to incorporate some of the ideas in Auden's poem "Musee de Beaux Arts" as well.

Which lines spoken by romeo in act iii, scene i of romeo and juliet best support the inference that romeo desires future peace between the montagues and capulets? check all that apply. abc romeo: tybalt, the reason that i have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting; villain am i none, romeo: i do protest i never injur'd thee, but love thee better than thou canst devise, romeo: draw, benvolio; beat down their weapons, gentlemen, for shame, forbear this outrage! romeo: alive! in triumph! and mercutio slain! away to heaven, respective lenity, and fire-ey'd fury be my conduct now! romeo: this day's black fate on more days doth depend; this but begins the woe others must end.