Read this excerpt from The People Could Fly. I have children and grandchildren now. Well, you know, the bigger ones don't care so much to hear about those times. But the little ones, well, they never get tired of hearin how their grandpa brought emancipation to loads of slaves he could touch and feel in the dark but never ever see.

How does the speaker feel about his role in the Underground Railroad now that he is older?

He wishes that he had never put his family in so much danger.
He wishes he had done more to help others when he had the chance.
He feels proud that he helped so many people gain their freedom.
He feels grateful that he was able to get back at the slaveholders.

He feels proud that he helped so many people gain their freedom.

Explanation:

According to the excerpt from The People Could Fly, the speaker feels proud about his role in the Underground Railroad that he helped so many people gain their freedom now that he is older.

He narrates how his younger grandchildren never get tired of hearing how he helped so many slaves gain their freedom and he feels a sense of pride that he was able to help so much people back when he was younger.

1.   in sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. the speaker says “then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.   through his defeat of finding words to describe his love, he shows his love for her.

2.   instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her.   at the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. so instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her.

3.   the beloved asked the speaker to describe how he feels about her. she begins to describe what she feels but "drop the torch" and says that she can't do it because the words "hid in me out of reach." the the speaker says "nay, let the silence of my womanhood command my woman-love to thy belief" and that her silence will have to be the answer to his question.