Questions: What is the effect of the author's use of apostrophe in the poem "85"? It creates a detached effect between the readers and the author. It engages readers by addressing someone unknown. It causes the readers to imagine a future event. It engages readers by addressing them directly. Let us take the blue sky by storm and plunder space as we run. Laughter floats in the air like foam on the flood. Brothers, let us squander our morning in futile songs. 85 Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds. Open your doors and look abroad. From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories [if the vanished flowers of an hundred years before. In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across an hundred years.

What is the effect of the author's use of apostrophe in the poem "85"?
It creates a detached effect between the readers and the author.
It engages readers by addressing someone unknown.
It causes the readers to imagine a future event.
It engages readers by addressing them directly.

Let us take the blue sky by storm and plunder space as we run.
Laughter floats in the air like foam on the flood.
Brothers, let us squander our morning in futile songs.

85

Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence?
I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds. Open your doors and look abroad.
From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories [if the vanished flowers of an hundred years before.
In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across an hundred years.

Transcript text: What is the effect of the author's use of apostrophe in the poem "85"? It creates a detached effect between the readers and the author. It engages readers by addressing someone unknown. It causes the readers to imagine a future event. It engages readers by addressing them directly. Let us take the blue sky by storm and plunder space as we run. Laughter floats in the air like foam on the flood. Brothers, let us squander our morning in futile songs. 85 Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold from yonder clouds. Open your doors and look abroad. From your blossoming garden gather fragrant memories [if the vanished flowers of an hundred years before. In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across an hundred years.

Solution

Answer

The answer is: It engages readers by addressing someone unknown.

Explanation

Option 1: It creates a detached effect between the readers and the author.

This option is not accurate because the use of apostrophe in the poem is intended to create a connection rather than a detachment. The author is reaching out across time to engage with future readers.

Option 2: It engages readers by addressing someone unknown.

This is the correct option. The apostrophe is used to address an unknown reader in the future, creating a sense of engagement and curiosity. The author speaks directly to someone who will read the poem a hundred years later, which draws the reader into the poem by making them feel personally addressed.

Option 3: It causes the readers to imagine a future event.

While the poem does involve a future reader, the primary effect of the apostrophe is not to make readers imagine a future event but to engage with the unknown reader directly.

Option 4: It engages readers by addressing them directly.

This option is partially correct, as the apostrophe does address readers directly. However, the emphasis is more on the unknown aspect of the future reader rather than the current reader, making Option 2 a more precise choice.

Was this solution helpful?

Unhelpful

Helpful

Questions asked by other users

< Previous Next >

Thank you for your feedback.

Copied!