How is the main conflict of the storm's threat resolved in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Wreck of the Hesperus"? A. The old sailor warns the skipper about the storm. B. The narrator prays for sailors' safety. C. The fisherman finds the daughter's body on the beach. D. The skipper protects his daughter by tying her to the mast.

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Nikolai

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15 April, 21:37

How is the main conflict of the storm's threat resolved in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Wreck of the Hesperus"? A. The old sailor warns the skipper about the storm. B. The narrator prays for sailors' safety. C. The fisherman finds the daughter's body on the beach. D. The skipper protects his daughter by tying her to the mast.

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Ishaan Barr · Answer 1

"D. The skipper protects his daughter by tying her to the mast" is how this threat is resolved. He gets this ideas from the Greek epic poem The Odyssey, in which the same tactic is used.