These lines provide the reader with Read the excerpt from the poem "My First Memory (of
Librarians)."
The welcoming smile of my librarian
The anticipation in my heart
All those books-another world—just waiting
At my fingertips
O implicit information about the important role that
books played in the speaker's childhood.
O implicit information about how anxious the librarian felt
whenever the speaker entered the library.
O explicit information about the types of books that the
speaker read when she visited the library.
O explicit information about how the librarian looked and
the places she hoped to visit someday.