Read the quotation from "A Hymn to the Evening". "Soon as the sun forsook the eastern mainThe pealing thunder shook the heav'nly plain"Wheatley uses the word forsook to express the idea that the sun is

“Forsook” means left or departed. The sun leaving the eastern main (the eastern sea) suggests it has moved across the sky and is setting as evening begins. So “setting during the evening” is the correct choice; the line does not mean the sun is abandoning the speaker.

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