Read the poem.Wide-eyed clowns honk noses,Toddlers shriek with glee,A rogue balloon stops with a pop,A big band blares its harmony.
Read the poem excerpt.A backyard reality is rearranged.Hopscotch lines cower and hide,The toys in the yard . . . lost until spring.
Which phrase from the "The Bells” best conveys the mood of lines 70-94?
Read the poem.Skimming the bottomIn the company of toes,I observe the deep endThough nobody knows.In the depths, I am bold,On the surface—shy.My goggles transform me:An underwater spy.
Read the poem.School looms large, and I feel smallI pause until the door swings wideI hoist my pack, step insideAdjust my cuffs, smooth my hairAnd wonder what I’m doing here.
Read this excerpt from "The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe.For every sound that floatsFrom the rust within their throatsIs a groan.
Read the poem.Throat is dry;weather’s hot.I buy a canand pop the top.I lift the canto trembling lips,And find reliefWith one cool sip.
Read this excerpt from "The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe.How it swells!How it dwellsOn the Future! how it tellsOf the rapture that impels
Read the excerpt from “Sea Fever” by John Masefield.To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife;
Read excerpt 1 (line 38) from "The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe.What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!Read excerpt 2 (line 113) from "The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe.To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.
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