The following text is adapted from Andrew Marvell’s 1681 poem “To His Coy Mistress.”Had we but world enough and time,This coyness, lady, were no crime.We would sit down, and think which wayTo walk, and pass our long love’s day.Thou by the Indian Ganges’ sideShouldst rubies find; I by the tideOf Humber would complain. I wouldLove you ten years before the flood,And you should, if you please, refuseTill the conversion of the Jews.What is the main idea of the text?The speaker is losing interest in his mistress since she doesn't seem to reciprocate his feelings.eliminateThe speaker would spend all his time courting his mistress, if they were both immortal.eliminateThe speaker is refusing the advances of his mistress. eliminateThe speaker would prefer having rubies to being with his mistress.

The following text is adapted from William Shakespeare’s 1609 poem “Sonnet 116.”Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,That looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth‘s unknown, although his height be taken.Love‘s not Time‘s fool, though rosy lips and cheeksWithin his bending sickle‘s compass come;Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,But bears it out even to the edge of doom.What is the main idea of the text?The speaker is reflecting on a failed romance.eliminateThe speaker is explaining how a relationship has evolved over time.eliminateThe speaker is claiming that love will endure despite the passing of time.eliminateThe speaker is describing the way that storms have an impact on love.

" it is ourselves that we shall disposses, betray,condemn" what does the poet convey?Related: NCERT Solutions: Poem - No Men are Foreign?

Read these lines from "the sonnet-ballad" by Gwendolyn Brooks:Would have to be untrue. Would have to courtCoquettish death, whose impudent and strangePossessive arms and beauty (of a sort)Can make a hard man hesitate and change.Identify the rhyme scheme established in these lines.A.abcaB.aabbC.abbaD.abab

How do lines 15-20 develop the theme of the poem?

Read this passage:LADY MACBETH. Was the hope drunkWherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since?And wakes it now, to look so green and paleAt what it did so freely? From this timeSuch I account thy love. Art thou afeardTo be the same in thine own act and valourAs thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have thatWhich thou esteem'st the ornament of life,And live a coward in thine own esteem,Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would,"Like the poor cat i' the adage?William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, scene viiHow does Lady Macbeth influence Macbeth's decision to murder Duncan?A.She laughs at Macbeth's belief in the witches' prophecy, making him angry enough to kill the king.B.She tells Macbeth how proud she is of him, calling him strong and manly, until he agrees to kill the king.C.She warns Macbeth that if he does not kill the king, his children will go hungry and likely die.D.She calls Macbeth weak and questions his strength of character, pushing him to agree to the crime.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS