Read the poem “mouse’s nest” by john clare. why is this poem a sonnet?
i found a ball of grass among the hay
and progged it as i passed and went away;
and when i looked i fancied something stirred,
and turned again and hoped to catch the bird —
when out an old mouse bolted in the wheats
with all her young ones hanging at her teats;
she looked so odd and so grotesque to me,
i ran and wondered what the thing could be,
and pushed the knapweed bunches where i stood;
then the mouse hurried from the craking brood.
the young ones squeaked, and as i went away
she found her nest again among the hay.
the water o'er the pebbles scarce could run
and broad old cesspools glittered in the sun.

it has 14 lines.
it is in written in iambic pentameter.
it has ababcdcdefefgg rhyme scheme.
it uses flower imagery and other figurative language.
it discusses nature and its wonders.

Which two passages in this excerpt from the death of ivan illych does leo tolstoy use to suggest that ivan ilych feels like his life is slipping away from him? "what's the use? it makes no difference," he said to himself, staring with wide-open eyes into the darkness. "death. yes, death. and none of them knows or wishes to know it, and they have no pity for me. now they are playing." (he heard through the door the distant sound of a song and its accompaniment.) "it's all the same to them, but they will die too! fools! i first, and they later, but it will be the same for them. and now they are merry . . the beasts! " anger choked him and he was agonizingly, unbearably miserable. "it is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror! " he raised himself. "something must be wrong. i must calm myself—must think it all over from the beginning." and he again began thinking. "yes, the beginning of my illness: i knocked my side, but i was still quite well that day and the next. it hurt a little, then rather more. i saw the doctors, then followed despondency and anguish, more doctors, and i drew nearer to the abyss. my strength grew less and i kept coming nearer and nearer, and now i have wasted away and there is no light in my eyes.

In marian anderson sings the author begins the story by putting the reader right in the middle of the action what is the yearn for this type of organization

Listening is also important because you spend more time listening than participating in any other communication activity. in fact, you spend more time listening to others than doing almost anything else. typical americans spend more than 80 percent of any average day communicating with other people l. they spend 45 percent of that communication time listening to others. which sentence states the main idea?