3 Part A
(a)
How does the speaker's reference to some dull opiate in line 3 and a
drought of vintage in line 11 impact the meaning of the poem?
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by linking the speaker's knowledge of life's shortness to the
bird's dying song
by establishing the speaker's desire to numb his senses as a
means of escape
by revealing the speaker's longing for simple pleasures to
help him feel joy
D
by reminding the speaker that people in the past
experienced similar desires