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How tall is the one whose glass is half-full;

How small is the one whose glass is a near-empty pool.

How sunny is the one who sees the bright side of things; How gloomy is the one whose heart to clouds clings.

One smile, a snapshot of glee shared with a stranger, One frown, a beast growling with anger.

A choice to be made

For joy- will you be an open door Or barricade?

How does the poem's thyme scheme most clearly contribute to the meaning of the poem?

A. The rigidly structured rhyming pattern highlights the

deadly seriousness of the poem's topic 8. The fact that all the lines thyme creates a lively pace

to draw attention to the poems happy feel

C. The unstructured rhyming pattem expresses the speaker's feustration with people who choose to be

D. The thyming pairs of lines emphasize the contrast

between positive and negative attitudes

Answer 1

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Because the poem comes to us in translation, we lose some of the nuance and poetry of reading it in its original form. However, figures of speech do shine through. To begin with, the river is personified or given human characteristics: when we first encounter it, it "frowned" like a...