Read the following excerpt from "After the Winter” by Claude McKay. And we will seek the quiet hill Where towers the cotton tree
, And leaps the laughing crystal rill, And works the droning bee. And we will build a cottage there Beside an open glade, With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near, And ferns that never fade. What effect does the repetition of the word "and” have on this stanza? It emphasizes that a quiet hill is much more desirable than a droning bee. It highlights the poet’s desire to seek a quiet hill with a cotton tree. It stresses the images of the crystal rill, the droning bee, and the cottage, but not the ferns. It connects and gives equal importance to all of the ideas and images in the stanza.
