Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

'But it has been from the first her great mistake to meet him, marry him, to love him as she so bitterly had. Looking at his face, it sometimes came to her that all women had been cursed from the cradle: all, in one fashion or another, being given the same cruel destiny, born to suffer the weight of men'.
The sentiment expressed here about the curse on women is

He would like some good Fufu, but without a lot of meat, street Fufu is miserable food, and with meat the cost will crucify a man completely.
The man in this passage is obviously

'And now the bells are chiming
A year is born
'And my heart bell is ringing
in a dawn'
The writer of these words is in a state of

Science, that simple saint, cannot be bothered Figuring what anything is far;
Enough for her devotions that things are And can be contemplated soon as gathered
She knows how every living thing was fathered,
She calculates the climate of each star,
She counts the fish at sea, but cannot care
Why any one of them exists, fish, fire or feathered
The dominant rhetorical device used in the poem is

Science, that simple saint, cannot be bothered Figuring what anything is far;
Enough for her devotions that things are And can be contemplated soon as gathered
She knows how every living thing was fathered,
She calculates the climate of each star,
She counts the fish at sea, but cannot care
Why any one of them exists, fish, fire or feathered
The poet suggests that science