What does the speaker learn from her humanity class

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The following poem " Daystar" by Rita Dove portrays a situation that should be at least in some of its aspects familiar to you. How would you summarize that situation.
What does the speaker learn from her humanity class? Why, according to the poem, might we all need one? What aspects of the situation imagined here seem especially funny or ironic? How does the poem " Humanity" by Denise Duhamel use specific aspects of familiar situations?
Does the poem "Sci-Fi" by Tracy K smith presents then future it imagines as positive? negative? both? how might this poem's version of the future compare to those conventionally offered up in science fiction and film? Might the poem comment on such conventional representations?
What according to the speaker, are the specific virtues of the ideal world and the life to which he invites his "love" (line 1)? how, by implication, might the poem " The Passionate Shepherd to his love" by Christopher Marlowe characterize the (real) world he invites her to leave behind?
Raleigh's poem works by presenting the same situation and setting Marlowe's does from a different speaker's perspective and having that speaker ,in turn, present a sort of "if/then" scenario: for what specific reasons is this nymph not going to accept her shepherd's offer? What's the effect of the poem's "if/then" structure? the poem is called " The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" by Sir Walter Raleigh.

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