THE CORRECT ANSWER IS (D).THIS QUESTION ASKS YOU TO REASONABOUT, A...
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The correct answer is (D).
This question asks you to reason
about, as well as to understand, what you have read. Logically if
Frederick Douglass, choice (A), were the speaker, he would not
begin the poem with a noun of direct address. You can also
eliminate choices (B) and (E) because there is no indication in
the poem that the speaker is a historian or a former slave,
although the latter is not impossible. You are left with two
responses—the poet, choice (C), and a despairing African
American, choice (D). Choice (D) is the broader of the two
choices; it encompasses the poet who is African American and
also despairing of the current circumstances of African Ameri-
cans in the early part of the twentieth century.
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