1. What if you were a child (probably a poor child) working in a factory and you looked out a window and watched grown men playing, not working? How would you feel?
2. I'm not sure who "they" are. Do you know?
http://www.answers.com/irony
http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm#i
Ok, I have to answer questions on these 2 poems, and I can't figure them out...
The Golf Links Lie So Near The Mill by Sarah N. Cleghorn
The golf links lie so near the mill
That almost every day
The working children can look out
And see the men at play.
And the 2nd...
Earth by John Hall Wheelock
"A planet doesn't explode of itself," said drily
The Martian astronomer, gazing off into the air---
"That they were able to do it is proof that highly
Intelligent beings must have been living there."
Then the questions on them...
1. What emotions is the author striving to evoke through the first poem?
2. State the message of Wheelocck's poem directly in prose.
3. Explain how irony works.
So if you could PLEASE help me, I would really appreciate it!!!
Thanks!!!
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what is the simbolic meaning of the poem EARTH
2. "THEY" are the humans of Earth. The implication is that astronomers on Mars noticed the nuclear destruction of planet earth. This poem was likely written before we knew that there was no intelligent life on mars. It's meant to convey a sense of irony that humanity's only contact with another intelligent species was the spectacle of a planetary suicide.
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