Information and IdeasHardQuotation supporting a claim about a poem's tone
Information and Ideas practice question
A critic argues that the poem treats old age with humour rather than sorrow.
Which quotation from the poem would best support the critic's claim?
- A. 'My knees now hold a conference each morning / on whether to get up, and they are split.'Correct
- B. 'The light goes early and I go with it.'
- C. 'I count the friends I have not yet outlived.'
- D. 'The house is quiet now, and so am I.'
Answer: A. 'My knees now hold a conference each morning / on whether to get up, and they are split.'
Knees holding a 'conference' and being 'split': a joke about age.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. 'The light goes early and I go with it.'
- Melancholy, not humour.
- C. 'I count the friends I have not yet outlived.'
- Sorrowful — counting survivors.
- D. 'The house is quiet now, and so am I.'
- Quiet resignation, not humour.
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