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The Poetry of Identity

Question 9 • CA-Expository Reading and Writing A

Read the poem "The Wind’s Visit" by Emily Dickinson.The wind tapped like a tired man,And like a host, "Come in,"I boldly answered; entered thenMy residence within A rapid, footless guest,To offer whom a chairWere as impossible as handA sofa to the air. No bone had he to bind him,His speech was like the pushOf numerous humming-birds at onceFrom a superior bush.His countenance a billow,His fingers, if he pass,Let go a music, as of tunesBlown tremulous in glass. He visited, still flitting;Then, lik

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the speaker is worried about the wind’s damaging power.
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the speaker is frightened by the wind’s ghostlike appearance.
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the speaker dislikes visits from unwanted guests.
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the speaker enjoys this unexpected visit from the wind.
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