The speaker feels sad about the passage of time. which line from the poem best illustrates that idea? (4 points) and the sunshine and shadder fell over it all; and it mottled the worter with amber and gold oh! it showed me a face in its warm sunny tide that gazed back at me so gay and glorified, you could tell by the dent of the heel and the sole they was lots o'fun on hands at the old swimmin'-hole. and i stray down the banks whare the trees ust to be— but never again will theyr shade shelter me!

The line from the poem that best illutrates the idea that the speaker feels sad about the passage of time is the last line: "And I stray down the banks whare the trees ust to be— But never again will theyr shade shelter me!"

When the speaker says that he strays back, he conveys the impression that he is lost, homeless or abandoned. The speaker strays back to where the trees, the most solid representation of a scenery in a specific moment, used to be. This line reflects how unprotected the speaker feels and how much he misses those trees that are no longer there, when he says, with a tone of mourning and doom, that their shade will never shelter him again. The speaker demonstrates how much he wishes to go back in time and feel like he used to.

often a noun phrase is just a noun or a pronoun:

people like to have money.

i am tired.

it is getting late.

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