Question

Read the following passage from Anne Sexton's poem, "Young" and answer the question.

A thousand doors ago
when I was a lonely kid
in a big house with four
garages and it was summer
as long as I could remember,
I lay on the lawn at night,
clover wrinkling over me,
the wise stars bedding over me,

What can we infer about the speaker from this passage? Select all that apply.
that the speaker is an older person looking back
that the speaker is a younger person looking towards the future
that the speaker didn't have had many friends as a child
that the speaker came from a wealthy family

Answer 1

We can infer from the passage that that the speaker is an older person looking back.

Answer 2

Answer: A) that the speaker is an older person looking back, and D) that the speaker came from a wealthy family.

Step-by-step explanation: in the given passage, we can see the description of a person's childhood told from his/her point of view. From the given options, the ones that represents what we can infer about the speaker from the passage, are the corresponding to option A, because the fact that he says that he was a kid "a thousand doors ago" shows that he is an old person, and option D, because he says that his house had four garages.