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mjohnson05
17.07.2019 • 
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After the speaker writes his loves' name upon the sand, why does the woman refer to him as a "vain man"? question 11 options: a. she believes that his efforts are futile because she will eventually die and be forgotten. c. she believes he wants her to be wiped out by the tide just like the sand b. she believes he only writes her name in order to be in her good graces d. she believes he doesn't really love her as much as he claims one day i wrote her name upon the strand, but came the waves and washed it away: again i wrote it with a second hand, but came the tide, and made my pains his prey. “vain man,” said she, “that dost in vain assay. a mortal thing so to immortalize, for i myself shall like to this decay. and eek my name be wiped out likewise.” “not so,” quod i, “let baser things devise to die in dust, but you shall live by fame: my verse your virtues rare shall eternize, and in the heavens write your glorious name. where whenas death shall all the world subdue, our love shall live, and later life renew.”

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