A). An older woman looking back on her adolescence.
Explanation:
Anne Sexton, the American poet employs 'an older woman looking back on her adolescence' as the speaker in her poem "Young". The speaker could probably be the poet herself who looks back at her time and describes the intense changes that have been experienced by the speaker in the process of attaining puberty during summers that recalls her childhood. The poet portrays her nostalgia and reflects the warmth that she experienced as a child which mirrors her youth and how the development(mental and physical) disturbingly affects the relationships. Thus, <u>option A</u> is the correct answer.
I do not know if this is a multiple choice question or not, but the answer is an older person, a woman specifically, that is looking back on her adolescence and reflecting on the profound change that she experienced as a result.There are references, although unusual, to the past ("A thousand doors ago"), as well as references, clearer this time, to the speaker's transition from a lonely childhood ("when I was a lonely kid") to a lonely adolescence ("and I, in my brand new body, which was not a woman’s yet, told the stars my questions"), and also to the daydream, the curiosity and the uncertainty that adolescence brings alone. The reader can also infer that the speaker's parents are not in harmony with each other, since it is nightime and they are in two different rooms, and that her family is well-off.
