Question

Read the following lines from "Telephone Conversation." "... - One moment madam!" - sensing Her receiver rearing on the thunderclap About my ears - "Madam," I pleaded..." Using information in these lines, the reader can most likely infer that the landlady (1 point) hesitates before scolding the speaker for his rudeness. raises the telephone as if to strike the speaker in the head. intends to disconnect the speaker by hanging up on him. shifts away from the telephone receiver in stunned silence.

Answer 1

She is about to disconnet by hanging upon him. The whole poem is about an African person and the landlady who simply inquires how dark the person is, at the end she seems impatient and is simply about hang upon him -- rearing...about my ears. She couldn't be near him to strike him, if she was to scold the speaker there would be silence, the same idea applies if she turned the receiver away.