<p>For one of the question about the frog, with the empty house, did anyone put how the frog no matter how hard he tries can’t influence human events?</p>
<p>Haha wow we posted the same question at the exact same time.</p>
<p>Don’t remember, but I do remember that the frog couldn’t do jack ****.</p>
<h2>does anyone remember all other questions for the frog poem?</h2>
<p>The Frog in the Swimming Pool</p>
<p>Debora Greger</p>
<p>A wet green velvet scums the swimming pool,
furring the cracks. The deep end swims
in a hatful of rain, not enough to float</p>
<p>the bedspring barge, the tug of shopping cart.
Green-wet himself, the bullfrog holds his court,
sounding the summons to a life so low</p>
<p>he’s yet to lure a mate. Under the lip
of concrete slab he reigns, a rumble of rock,
a flickering of sticky tongue that’s licked</p>
<p>at any morsel winging into view.
How would he love her? Let me count the waves
that scrape the underside of night and then</p>
<p>let go, the depth of love unplumbed, the breadth,
the height of the pool all he needs to know.
How do I love him? Let me add the weight</p>
<p>of one hush to another, the mockingbird
at midnight echoing itself, not him,
one silence torn in two, sewn shut again.</p>
<p>Down to his level in time wings everything.
He calls the night down on his unlovely head,
on the slimy skin that breathes the slimy air—</p>
<p>the skin that’s shed and still he is the same,
the first voice in the world, the last each night.
His call has failed to fill the empty house</p>
<p>across the street, the vacant swing that sways
halfheartedly, the slide slid into rust,
the old griefs waiting burial by the new.</p>
<p>I put use of adverbs. The adverbs contradicted with the connotation of the verbs</p>
<p>I put for an answer, something about adding spiritual qualities to the washing waves question xD</p>
<p>Lines 2-4</p>
<p>This is my attempt to compile some answers…</p>
<p>The Frog in the Swimming Pool
- Blended into his environment
- Unattractive and lonely</p>
<p>Marius
- “Bless his heart” = ironic interjection</p>
<p>Lady Eustace
- Calculated charm
- Sir Florian is a victim</p>
<p>Ulysses
- Worldly attitude</p>
<p>On a side note, was anybody’s hand shaking after the essays? I was writing sooo fast, that my hand cramped several times and that NEVER happens.</p>
<p>The poem of the grief is missing xD</p>
<p>Also me too xD, like my hands were sore for like 2 hours and I felt a burning sensation in my head until school ended for the day xD</p>
<p>For the Marius one, I put down adverbs as my answer. Also muffing = spoiling? because they like “waited too long”, and my mind went to food that spoils after too much time and the whole thing was about apt timing of death. </p>
<p>The frog questions were like… is the frog: isolated and unattractive, alienated but deserving, lovely because of his appearance and I forgot the rest. I can’t remember what I put down. Then I think there was like a theme question and one of the answers was something along the lines of “humans’ inability to understand animals”? Ugh I can’t remember.</p>
<p>ugh i REALLY hate that poem now that I read it again.</p>
<p>Anyone agree? Disagree?</p>
<p>The Frog in the Swimming Pool
- Blended into his environment
- Unattractive and lonely</p>
<p>Marius
- “Bless his heart” = ironic interjection
- Muffing = spoiling the opportune moment to die
- Adverbs</p>
<p>Lady Eustace
- Calculated charm
- Sir Florian is a victim</p>
<p>Ulysses
- Worldly attitude </p>
<p>Grief
- People should fully embrace their grief</p>
<p>The Frog in the Swimming Pool
- Blended into his environment
- Unattractive and lonely</p>
<p>Marius
- “Bless his heart” = ironic interjection
- Bigot
- Death= overexaggerated
- An answer about editors</p>
<p>Lady Eustace
- Calculated charm
- Sir Florian is a victim</p>
<p>Ulysses
- Worldly attitude
- Ajax = latest to gain fame</p>
<p>Despair
- Silent was the answer to the first question</p>
<p>It was decay and something else</p>
<p>I think loneliness is not limited to humans or something like that was the last answer. And it was definitely isolated and unattractive. I also put down adverbs for the Marius one and simile/metaphor for Achilles one.</p>
<p>Lady Eustace
1 The speaker assumes that: personality traits are can be seen in physical characteristics </p>
<p>Wait, for Marius, the answer wasn’t editors was it? because that was an “except” question and I definitely thought the editors and journalists were being satirized for their attitudes towards Marius as an artist (in death)… the only one I couldn’t see as a target of satire was the police.</p>
<p>What was “incredulous of” in the grief one? Lack of experiencing true grief?</p>
<p>One of the questions on Ulyssess was about the alms, can’t remember what I put</p>
<p>But i know one of the Ulyssess’s question’s answer was personification specifically that of Time’s personification</p>
<p>Oh decay and loneliness</p>
<p>No editors was the answer to a different, easier question.</p>
<p>alms were Achilles’ deeds. fo sho.</p>