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Read the passage.

To Waken an Old Lady
by William Carlos Williams.

Old age is
a flight of small
cheeping birds
skimming
bare trees
above a snow glaze.
Gaining and failing
they are buffeted
by a dark wind—
But what?
On harsh weedstalks
the flock has rested,
the snow
is covered with broken
seedhusks
and the wind tempered
by a shrill
piping of plenty.

What do the small cheeping birds symbolize in this poem?

strong winds
snowy weather
wisdom
youth

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I think the birds symbolize wisdom but I'm not sure
User Sam Fen
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Answer:

The small cheeping birds symblize Youth in this poem

Step-by-step explanation:

In this poem, we first observe that the main topic is old age, not the trees, the snow, or the birds. They are the figurative language used o represent body, time, and memories. Therefore, because the trees represent the person that is standing strong in a base of memories, we can interpret that the cheeping birds is the representation of youth because it is said that old people live hunted by youth and their duel of accepting their time has passed and won't come back, that is why dark winds impulse the birds.

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