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OpenStudy (anonymous):

To a young child Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leaves, like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! as the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you will weep know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sorrow’s springs are the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It is the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Why does the speaker in "Spring and Fall" tell Margaret that her sorrow is "the blight man was born for"? A. He is making an allusion to the lost paradise of Eden. B. He is explaining why trees lose their leaves in the fall. C. He is referring to an illness from which Margaret suffers. D. He is advising her to accept a common human experience.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

how exactly am i supposed to know what the author was thinking

OpenStudy (anonymous):

i think its is b

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