1. word
2.midterm
3. shirt
4.return
5.nerve
6.stern
7. spurts
8.verse
9.thirst
10.swerve
11.work
12.squirm
13.spur
14.squirt
15.lurk
16.surf
17.learning
18.blurt
19.yearns
20.lurch
The speakers in the poem are:
“Two speakers: one dead and one living”.
<u>Explanation:</u>
The poem, “Is My Team Ploughing?” by A.E Housman, is about a conversation that takes place between two friends, one who is dead and the other who is living, and has come to visit him at his grave.
This is depicted or observed by the way the poet writes certain questions in inverted quotations, revealing that they are questions are asked by the friend in the grave, wanting to know how things in the outside world are as he no longer can see or observe them.
Answer:
The poet most likely includes this allusion to help show that books were a source of comfort and imagination for the speaker.
Explanation: