Which excerpt from "the turtle” includes words that create a calm and welcoming mood? (a) skin of the water, dragging her shell with its mossy scutes across the shallows and through the rushes (b )to dig with her ungainly feet a nest, and hunker there spewing her white eggs down (c) of her patience, her fortitude, her determination to complete what she was born to do – (d) it isn’t even hers but came to her in the rain or the soft wind, which is a gate through which her life keeps walking.

How are poe’s ideas of daytime similar in the final stanzas of "dreams" and "a dream"? a. both poems suggest that daytime offers the possibility for love. b. both poems insist that nature’s strength is overwhelming during the day. c. both poems indicate that daytime is the preferred time to dream. d. both poems suggest that daytime realities are inferior to dreams.

That time of year thou mayst in me behold when yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang upon those boughs which shake against the cold, bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang in me thou sees the twilight of such day as after sunset fadeth in the west; which by and by black night doth take away, death's second self that seals up all in rest. in me thou seest the glowing of such fire that on the ashes of his youth doth lie, as the deathbed whereon it must expire, consumed with that which it was nourished by. this thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well, which thou must leave ere long. the first stanza compares the leafless limbs of a tree to a.yellow leaves b.sweet birds c.bare choirs d.summer

How many stanzas does this poem have, shall i compare thee to a summer day?