Question

1. Who is the speaker of the poem? Who is the audience? How do you know?

2. What elements of sound are used in lines 3,4, and 5?

3. The sun-slappers, the self-soilers, and the harmony-hushers are metaphors of what?

4. What does the speaker mean in the following quote: "even if you are not ready for a day it cannot always be night."​

Answer 1

If poem is written by Rudyard Kipling.

Step-by-step explanation:

The speaker of the poem is a father who is trying to teach his son how to deal with hardships of life, how to be confident in any circumstance of life, how to behave in a dignified way and stop over reacting.

So, the speaker is a father and the audience is his son.