<p>So yeah we did sth called "Laying the foundation" today, and here is the poem:
Sunday mornings I would reach
high into his dark closet while standing
on a chair and tiptoeing reach
higher, touching, sometimes fumbling
the soft crowns and imagine
I was in a forest, wind hymning
through pines, where the musky scent
of rain clinging to damp earth was
his scent I loved, lingering on
bands, leather, and on the inner silk
crowns where I would smell his
hair and almost think I was being
held, or climbing a tree, touching
the yellow fruit, leaves whose scent
was that of clove in the godsome
air, as now, thinking of his fabulous
sleep, I stand on this canyon floor
and watch light slowly close
on water I can't be sure is there.</p>
<p>Here are the question I missed, and still don't understand.
1) With the words" I stand on this canyon floor", the speaker shifts from:
a) imaginary scenes to reality
b) childishness to maturity
c) past tense to present tense</p>
<p>---> The answer is c but I think a is fine. Why?</p>
<p>And a second poem:</p>
<p>hose Winter Sundays</p>
<pre><code>Sundays too my father got up early
</code></pre>
<p>And put his clothes on in the blueback cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.</p>
<p>I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he'd call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,</p>
<p>Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices? </p>
<p>2) All of the folowing contrasts occur between the two poems EXCEPT that one
a) is about the love a son feels when the other is about fatherly love
b) is set in a warm climate while the other occurs in a cold climate</p>
<p>-> The answer is b but why not a?</p>