Answer: A. It shows the father has a tendency to exaggerate.
Explanation: When people exaggerate or imagine things, we tend to close our eyes. The last sentence, "(Here he'd stop and close his eyes)" shows us this.
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Th theme in this poem is that they are free to be human
Answer:
In France, the three estates included the Church, the nobles, and the peasants. I believe that the same thing happened in England - nobles and peasants were a part of these estates in medieval England, and later on merchants, or tradesmen were added. But I would say that scholars didn't belong to any of the three estates in medieval English society, however, I am not completely sure.