Question

What can you infer about the speaker in “Rose Pogonias”? Support your answer with evidence by citing examples of three words or phrases from the poem. Explain why each word or phrase helps you know more about the speaker.
A saturated meadow,

Sun-shaped and jewel-small,

A circle scarcely wider

Than the trees around were tall;

Where winds were quite excluded,

And the air was stifling sweet

With the breath of many flowers, --

A temple of the heat.

There we bowed us in the burning,

As the sun's right worship is,

To pick where none could miss them

A thousand orchises;

For though the grass was scattered,

yet every second spear

Seemed tipped with wings of color,

That tinged the atmosphere.

We raised a simple prayer

Before we left the spot,

That in the general mowing

That place might be forgot;

Or if not all so favored,

Obtain such grace of hours,

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Answer 1

Its [a temple of flowers ] and it is also [ a saturated meadow , Sun -shaped and small jewel-small