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Verbal·Craft and Structure·Text Structure and Purpose

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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?

A

It conveys the speaker’s sense that he is alone while experiencing the evening.

B

It shows that the speaker would rather look at the fields than at the water.

C

It indicates the speaker’s disappointment that other people dislike rural settings.

D

It explains why the speaker has woken up from sleeping.