What is the tone of Audre Lorde's poem "Hanging Fire"?

Audre Lordes
poem Hanging Fire looks at life through the eyes of a fourteen-year-old. What the young
teenager sees is not a happy and secure childhood. The tone of this poem could be described as
foreboding, which means fearful apprehension.

Poets develop their tone by
the use of , which is word choice. Compared to other forms of writing, poetic language is
spareevery word needs to carry significant meaning; there just isnt room for words that dont
help the poet convey his point. In considering the tone of a poem, a careful reader can usually
find some key words that the poet uses to create it.

In Hanging Fire one
good example of diction that develops tone comes in the second half of that first stanza
with:

what if I die

before
morning

The implication here is obviousthe thought of
death, especially such an imminent death, should not be what is on the mind of a
fourteen-year-old.

Poets often repeat key elements of diction in one way or
another, and Lorde does this near the end of the poem with these lines:

will I live enough

to grow up

These lines echo the subjects thought of death from the first
stanza. He or she is filled with mortal fear of what might happen in the near future, which is
the sense of foreboding that forms the tone of the poem.

Explain the main arguments in favor of economic stabilization during recessions. Explain why policy lags could make stabilization policies...

The main
argument for economic stabilization during recessions would be that it is the government's
obligation to stabilize the economy because that is in the interest of the people the government
is supposed to protect. Recessions have human impactsthey put people out of work, lead to
bankruptcies, and disrupt lives in many other ways. Many people argue that governments have a
moral obligation to act in the face of economic downturns. Others argue that government
intervention in recessions...

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What is an example of a person vs. supernatural conflict from Julius Caesar?

The play contains many examples
of superstitions and warnings of doom. 

A person vs. supernatural conflict is a conflict between a character and something that
is not normal in some way.  Supernatural elements include ghosts, omens, and superstitions. 
Romans were very superstitious, and there are many examples of superstitions in the
play.

First of all, the soothsayers warning to Caesar is an example of a
character vs. supernatural conflict because the soothsayer warns Caesar that he is doomed. 
Caesar does not pay attention, even though someone is telling him a specific day when he should
beware. 

CAESAR

What say'st thou to me now? speak once again.

Soothsayer

Beware the ides of
March.

CAESAR

He is a
dreamer; let us leave him: pass. (Act 1, Scene 2) 

This
is not the only bad omen mentioned in the play.  The conspirators mention all kinds of spooky
signs that they say they saw, such as tempests, flaming slaves, and owls during the day. 
Calpurnia has a dream where she imagines Caesars blood running like a fountain, and she does not
want him to go to the capital on the Ides of March.  Caesar almost listens to her, until Decius
Brutus convinces him to reinterpret the dream as a positive sign.  Of course, it wasn't.  Caesar
was assassinated on the Ides of March.

Another example of a character vs.
supernatural conflict is Cassiuss birthday omens.  Cassius gets very superstitious on his
birthday, deciding that the bad omens he is seeing mean that his battle is doomed and he is
about to die.  Although Cassius says he does not normally pay attention to omens, the
combination of the fact that its his birthday and he is about to go into a battle he does not
think will go well makes him morbid.

Coming from Sardis,
on our former ensign
Two mighty eagles fell, and there they perch'd,
Gorging
and feeding from our soldiers' hands;
Who to Philippi here consorted us:
This
morning are they fled away and gone;
And in their steads do ravens, crows and
kites,
Fly o'er our heads and downward look on us,
As we were sickly prey €¦
(Act 5, Scene 1)

Cassius was right to be worried.  Brutus
and Cassius were apparently outmatched at Philippi.  Cassiuss interpretation of the omens led
him to misread what happened in the battle and commit suicide prematurely.  Brutuss suicide came
not much later.

How did Enlightenment ideas shape the French Revolution?

The French
Revolution was certainly influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment, but it is important to
understand that it was in no way its cause. The French Revolution started as a peasant revolt in
the face of abuses by the nobility and the threat of famine.

That being said,
we can still examine how the revolution and its immediate aftermath were shaped by the
Enlightenment. Throughout the period, philosophers such as Locke, Rousseau, Beccaria,
Montesquieu, and Voltaire expounded ideas that were contrary to the political and social
landscape of pre-revolution France. They drew up models based on social contracts and rule
according to the will of the populace that ran counter to the system of absolute French monarchs
and the privileged aristocracy. Taken together, this painted a rough blueprint of what a
republic might look like. Indeed, the young United States had already been established according
to these ideas of the Enlightenment and provided further inspiration to the French
revolutionaries.

It should be pointed out that although they espoused ideas
that would inform the creation of the Republic of France, not all the Enlightenment thinkers
advocated for the complete end of the monarchy. Voltaire, in particular, held great reservations
about the general populace being intelligent enough to govern themselves. However, Voltaire's
notions of rationalism over blind religious adherence did much to shape how the Catholic Church
was restructured after the revolution.

Where we see the ideas of the
Enlightenment most clearly is in the works and influence of Emmanuel Joseph Siey¨s. Siey¨s was
heavily influenced by Rousseau and argued that the French Third Estate basically represented the
will of the populace since it composed nearly all of it. He argued that a representative
government would be the best way to employ the will of the people in government. It is largely
through his influence that the French National Assembly was established.

Furthermore, the philosophers of the Enlightenment, particularly Locke, argued that all
people have certain natural rights and that it is a government's job to protect these rights.
Also, Beccaria posited that criminal punishments should never be brutal and excessive. If you
examine the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, you will find many of Locke and
Beccaria's notions enshrined in this founding French document.

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Who Were The Progressives

The
Progressives were a group of reformers who were most active in the first two decades of the 20th
century.  These reformers were mainly white, middle-class Americans who had been born in the
United States.

The Progressives were concerned with problems that (they
thought) were caused by both the rich and the poor.  They felt that the rich were abusing their
power.  They felt that big businesses needed to be regulated so that workers would enjoy better
working conditions.  They felt the big businesses needed to be prevented from buying political
influence.  They thought that...

What is the significant event/incident that brings about the plot?

Arguably
the most significant event/incident in the entire novel is Raskolnikov's murder of the
pawnbroker.  It certainly "brings about the plot," as it is the catalyst
for...

What literary device is used in this quote from Romeo and Juliet?: "Well, in that hit you miss. Shell not be hit With Cupids arrow. She hath...

As well
as the allusions to characters from Greek mythology, discussed in previous answers, there are
also in this quotation examples of , repetition, and .

In this quotation,is
replying to, who has told Romeo that a "right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit."
The word "hit" here is a crude euphemism meaning to have sex with. In other words,
Benvolio is telling Romeo that he should have sex with Rosaline as soon as he can. Rosaline is
also objectified here as merely a "mark," or a target to be hit with an arrow. The
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