Read the passage from "by the waters of babylon.” how shall i tell what i saw? the towers are not all broken—here and there one still stands, like a great tree in a forest, and the birds nest high. but the towers themselves look blind, for the gods are gone. i saw a fishhawk, catching fish in the river. i saw a little dance of white butterflies over a great heap of broken stones and columns. i went there and looked about me—there was a carved stone with cut—letters, broken in half. i can read letters but i could not understand these. they said ubtreas. there was also the shattered image of a man or a god. it had been made of white stone and he wore his hair tied back like a woman's. his name was ashing, as i read on the cracked half of a stone. i thought it wise to pray to ashing, though i do not know that god. which details in the passage describe an atmosphere of desolation?two options. “how shall i tell what i saw? " "but the towers themselves look blind" "a fishhawk, catching fish in the river" "a little dance of white butterflies" "shattered image of a man or a god"

The correct answers are these two options: “but the towers themselves look blind” and “shattered image of a man or a god”. Taken from the short story “By the Waters of Babylon” by Stephen Vincent Benét (1937), the passage presented above narrates the moment when John, the son of a priest, visits the Place of the Gods. The Place of the Gods or The Dead Place was a great city that was destroyed by a great burning and it was said to be inhabited with spirits and demons since then. Since the passage describes this desolate place, the writer used a suspense tone in the narration. By definition, desolation is the state of a place that is completely empty or where everything has been destroyed. In this case, the two options “but the towers themselves look blind” and “shattered image of a man or a god” are the correct phrases that describe the details of a destroyed, desolate place which is the Place of the Gods.

The two correct options are "but the towers themselves look blind" and "shattered image of a man or a god".

Explanation: Desolation is described as a state of emptiness, loneliness, misery, or destruction. Describing that the towers "themselves look blind" suggests that the towers and the surrounding area looks gloomy and barren. The second option describes a shattered image, indicating destruction.

i can hear that beowulf uses alliteration and a pattern of stressed syllables. the language of the poem does not sound much like modern english, likely because old english is more closely related to germanic languages.