Answer:
It symbolically represents the power that Rufus had as Dana's master and the lingering effect that living under the white master's thumb had on enslaved people and their children.
Explanation:
Significantly, Dana seems to lose her arm because Rufus keeps hold of her wrist when she transports back to the present.
The correct answer is sighing from desire.
Indeed, the lexical field is populated with words that express tenderness, beauty and purity. However, there is a symbolic, underlying carnal desire in the poem. The sibilance is very ambiguous, just as the meaning of the words used to convey it (shade, less, grace, waves, tress). The word “waves” is especially evocative, as it expresses the waves of desire of the narrator for the beautiful woman.
Charles Boardman Hawes (1889-1923) was an American author of both fiction and nonfiction stories of the sea, well known for three historical novels.
