Question

Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this poem

in "To a poor old woman,"how does paper bag full of plums act as a symbol?

1). It represent the simple pleasures that make life worth living, which helps give the peom a positive tone

2). It represents the mundaneness of everyday experience, which conveys the poems in different tone

3). It represents the great luxurious that people experience only occasionally, which develops did poems awestruck tone

4). It represents the limit of human happiness, which stresses the poems fatalistic tone

Answer 1

The correct answer is 1). It represent the simple pleasures that make life worth living, which helps give the poem a positive tone.