<p>this is my rationale for the rain question in the trumpet passage:</p>
<p>the first time we see rain, we're encountered with him holding his girlfriend in their apartment with warm food cooking (it had something to do with food or something).</p>
<p>The second time we see the rain, he says "the rain. Gone. Heat. Gone." or something to that effect, so I said that the rain was a lost pleasure for him. (only because he noticed it was gone, it obviously means he misses it).</p>
<p>It said "rain in the streets" not "the rain"</p>
<p>I put corpse for the fallen tree limb and I strongly feel that's right. Because it was fallen! Does anyone else rationalize like that?</p>
<p>srabiee90 i got corpse also!!!!!! </p>
<p>i didn't think it was old ppl or anything cuz it was talking about the logge falling or something...</p>
<p>for the random lady and peter passage, i put vanity but then i changed it to immodesty or something else...noooooo!!! :(</p>
<p>actually...now that i think about it...and reading the poem again from google...it could be corpse...i mean after what debateaddict said...it's life...and it appeals to both young and old...
doesn't matter..i still put tree limb :( hahaha stupid me.</p>
<p>I didn't even answer that vanity question because I had no idea.</p>
<p>I'm really relieved to hear someone else put corpse.</p>
<p>I put old people, and I think I put brevity of life. I thought about corpse for that same reason, the falling.</p>
<p>What was the questions where one of the choices was to emphasize teh piano player? Was that the same rain question?</p>
<p>ANd could someone please tell me the other choices for the old lady/vanity question?</p>
<p>Lastly, harsh or easy curve?</p>
<p>Yea I put old people too, and I put 'consoling a friend about the untimely death or another friend' or smth like that. Because the passage was talking about how short things are really great wtvwtv, so if a friend died young, wouldn't you be consoling them that although he lived for a short while, he lived a great life?</p>
<p>And I think I put irony for that lady question. If that was even an answer choice...</p>
<p>I put self-deception for the lady question. And I also put the "friend died young" answer. I can't even remember anything unless it's specificially mentioned here. </p>
<p>Oh for the second one about that guy sculptor and the lady he made. Did you guys put laid...down?</p>
<p>The log was a metaphor for old age, and this is why. The poem is arranged so that it directly compares the virtues of living long with the virtues of living well. The lily is described as blooming for as little as one day but in its short existence being more beautiful and radiant than the oak was in its entire lifetime. The oak, by contrast, lived for three hundred years, and how did it end up? An decrepit, dried-out, forgotten log. The key was in the phrase "dried-out," I think. The poem isn't a warning against death, after all, but rather a warning against not living in the moment.</p>
<p>Of course, I could be wrong. I ended up putting corpse because of "fallen" and changing it to old age because of "dried-out" and because it fit the theme of the poem better, so I hope I made the right choice. I guess we'll see.</p>
<p>The poem is for young people, btw, because it imparts a lesson.</p>
<p>I also put irony for the first passage question, because Lady Whatsherface had everything else that was a choice, esp. self-deception.</p>
<p>Rereading it just now, I think it might be corpse. Dry means that it's dead, the only thing that would support old is the bald ADJ, but then bald would also support corpse. A log implies that it is no longer a tree because it's dead. So it seems like the answer is corpse and not old people. I was so close to putting corpse.</p>
<p>The questions about who the poem is for, was WAY too vague, because I remember 3 of the 5 choices were completly reasonable. So I think I guessed that one.</p>
<p>I think I put irony somewhere.</p>
<p>What did you guys put for "what does the word 'just' mean in 'In small proportions we just beauties see'"? I dont' remember the choices but I think I put righteous or virtuous or something? I don't know if he's saying 'we just beauties see' as in he's playing with syntax so that would mean that just is 'only'. BUT if he's saying it the way it's written and NOT messing with syntax then I would be right.</p>
<p>So either: in small proportions we only see the beauty in things.</p>
<p>OR</p>
<p>We that are truely beauties see tht short life is perfect.</p>
<p>What do you guys think?</p>
<p>ok ok i have two questions wrong...i better stop reading this thread..it's making my confidence lower and lower lolz</p>
<p>In the eyes of the poet, the worst fate possible wasn't to die, but to live to old age without having "bloomed" or led a meaningful life. That's why I put old age, because the oak and log part of the poem was illustrating this.</p>
<p>Oh gosh, I so don't remember the 'word-meaning' questions...:D</p>
<p>
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To **fall **a log at last, dry, bald, and sere:
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How more lucid could it be? It's corpse...</p>
<p>Do you remember what the other two-word choice for the "just" question was? That's the one I put. It was something like "right and correct".</p>
<p>for just i put true and something...
did anyone else put elemental force for the music?</p>
<p>:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(</p>
<p>i put elemental force :)</p>
<p>Same, elemental force.</p>
<p>I don't remember the other choices, I think virtuous was in there somewhere.</p>