“A Pathedy of Manners” pg. 44-45

4. The speaker shifts her language about the person in the poem about half way through the poem. At first she talks about how popular and beautiful she is and then halfway through she starts to talk about how lonely and sad she is after losing her husband and getting older. Examples from the writing that show this are when she sais “illusions of lost opportunity” and when she sais “they had an ideal marriage”.

“Cross” pg. 48-49

1. The connoations the title has is that black and white don’t mean skin color but maybe it represents them on the inside. The denotations are that white and black mean the color of the skin abut then it sais he is neither white nor black which would contradict that completely.