|Question 19Verbal

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The following text is Rainer Maria Rilke's 1897 poem "Evening" (translated by Jessie Lamont in 1918).

The bleak fields are asleep,
My heart alone wakes;
The evening in the harbour
Down his red sails takes.

Night, guardian of dreams,
Now wanders through the land;
The moon, a lily white,
Blossoms within her hand.
Which choice best states the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?
It conveys the speaker's sense that he is alone while experiencing the evening.
A
It shows that the speaker would rather look at the fields than at the water.
B
It indicates the speaker's disappointment that other people dislike rural settings.
C
It explains why the speaker has woken up from sleeping.
D