Information and IdeasHardQuotation supporting a claim about a poem's structure
Information and Ideas practice question
A critic argues that the poem's final line reverses the mood of everything before it.
Which quotation would best support the critic's claim?
- A. '…and so I closed the shutters on the night, / the cold, the dark, the long unanswered years — / and found the morning waiting on the sill.'Correct
- B. 'The night was cold and the dark was long.'
- C. 'I closed the shutters and I went to bed.'
- D. 'The years went by unanswered, one by one.'
Answer: A. '…and so I closed the shutters on the night, / the cold, the dark, the long unanswered years — / and found the morning waiting on the sill.'
Cold, dark, unanswered — then a morning waiting: the turn in the last line.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. 'The night was cold and the dark was long.'
- Bleak throughout, no reversal.
- C. 'I closed the shutters and I went to bed.'
- Neutral, no reversal.
- D. 'The years went by unanswered, one by one.'
- Bleak, no reversal.
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