Antony: if you have tears, prepare to shed them now. you all do know this mantle1. i remember the first time ever caesar put it on. ‘twas on a summer’s evening in his tent, that day he overcame the nervii2. look, in this place ran cassius’ dagger through. see what a rent the envious casca made. through this the well-belovèd brutus stabbed; 1. a cloak. 2. one of caesar’s military conquests. why does mark antony first recall caesar’s military background and then show the roman crowd caesar’s body?

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing



question

discuss the two key differences between the prose form of sojourner truth’s speech and the poetic version. use evidence from both texts to support your response.