Read the excerpt below from the poem "I Knew a Woman" by Theodore Roethke and answer the question that follows. Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay: I'm martyr to a motion not my own; What's freedom for? To know eternity. I swear she cast a shadow white as stone. But who would count eternity in days? These old bones live to learn her wanton ways: (I measure time by how a body sways). Source: Roethke, Theodore. "I Knew a Woman." The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. New York: Random House Inc., 1961. Poetry Foundation. Web. 9 June 2011. Which excerpt is a simile that indicates a thoughtful mood? "Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay:" " (I measure time by how a body sways)." "These old bones live to learn her wanton ways:" "I swear she cast a shadow white as stone."

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Dylan Best

15 June, 18:32

Read the excerpt below from the poem "I Knew a Woman" by Theodore Roethke and answer the question that follows. Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay: I'm martyr to a motion not my own; What's freedom for? To know eternity. I swear she cast a shadow white as stone. But who would count eternity in days? These old bones live to learn her wanton ways: (I measure time by how a body sways). Source: Roethke, Theodore. "I Knew a Woman." The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. New York: Random House Inc., 1961. Poetry Foundation. Web. 9 June 2011. Which excerpt is a simile that indicates a thoughtful mood? "Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay:" " (I measure time by how a body sways)." "These old bones live to learn her wanton ways:" "I swear she cast a shadow white as stone."

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Evangeline Allison · Answer 1

Simile uses like or as to compare. So I would say "I swear she cast a shadow white as snow" is the answer. But the question now is does it indicate any thoughtful mood? I think so cause usually shadows are dark qnd empty but here he saw the shadow as white as stone, which indicates the person had found love and so she is free and knows eternity.

I could be wrong