<p>^ You're right, it wasn't happy, but mostly despondent, because she wasn't despondent at all. What were the other choices? She seemed rather confident of her own worth though, and talked about the something of Bags - which shows she felt subject to an unknown..</p>
<p>Joseph found the woman funny, that was the whole point.. he was taking the **** out of her.</p>
<p>As for the oak question, it was telling young people to make the most of their lives.</p>
<p>What was the exact question about the woman - something about least/most characteristic - presumption, lust, aggression and irony? Surely irony would be least characteristic of her, because although she is ironic as a character, it is not in her nature to be witty, whereas it is in her nature to be presumptive, because she presumes that a) she has something to offer and b) that he is not seeing that which she has to offer?</p>
<p>i think for the woman question it was asking which of them did not apply to her. self-deception did not apply. She was not decieving herself because she actually thought she had something to offer. and for the oak question, how do you know it was that and not consoling someone who has just lost a friend in an untimely manner...</p>
<p>verbs asked which of the actions did not correspond to the statue..."laid down" was one of the answers...there was another plausible one that I may have actually put down but cannot remember!</p>
Why would you assume it is about consoling someone who has just lost a friend? There is absolutely no indication in the poem of that, and the last two lines made the point explicit.</p>
<p>i was debating between the last two (live life to the fullest/consoling someone) because the poem discusses the beauty of life even though it is sometimes short, when it gives the example of the lily who dies the same day.</p>
<p>I googled up the passage, because I knew the author of the passage was Zora Neale Hurston.</p>
<p>I also put ebullient to pensive. </p>
<p>The answer to the "Lily" passage was that life was short, because it gives the example of the lily that dies the same day. Even though, some answers sounded better, collegeboard tests are all about finding the answer in the passage, rather than making good assumptions.</p>
<p>i agree with JMO. and if you looked at the question right before, in the actual question it said " assuming that the moral of the poem is that beauty can be short- lived"....or something like that. I think JMO's right. And ace, i think you're wrong about Joseph thinking she was funny and irony. First of all, she tried to rape him. Joseph would not think that was funny. Secondly,she was very ironic (a woman raping a man...thats very dicken). I put presumption, but self-deception may also be right. but its not irony.</p>
<p>there was angry, jealous, arstistic something,...it was an except question that pertained to only the first stanza so i put angry because at that point he was just passionate and wanting to have sex with his creation</p>
<p>can someone explain the galatea and pygmalion poem to me? the part she rankly admitted ... something and not his repute.
like, the last two lines?</p>