Question

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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 referring to an illness from which Margaret suffers.

C.
He is advising her to accept a common human experience.

D.
He is explaining why trees lose their leaves in the fall.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

I believe that it is D. In the garden of Eden man was banished to a world including death and toil and pain. That is the issue here, the speaker is telling the subject that all this pain and sorrow is the same thing all humans face after the fall of man in Eden.

Answer 3

the correct answer is a