Question

questions 7 through 15 refer to the following. read the following poem carefully before you choose your answers. marjorie anderson’s poem “among elms and maples, morgantown, west virginia, august, 1935” was published in 1986. among elms and maples, morgantown, west virginia, august 1935 houses are wedged between the tall stacks of seneca glass beside the monongahela and waffle up steep hills. here, the terrain allows photographers to appear acrobatic. 5 walker evans 3 liked standing on a hill, focusing down so it seemed he was poised on a branch. he liked the single telephone pole against the flat sky, crossed off - center like a crucifix. beneath it, among elms and maples, is the house my mother lived in with her sister and their mother nearly fifty years ago. in this shot, evans 10 only wanted the rough surfaces of clapboard houses, their meshed roofs and slanted gables. he didn’t want my mother peeling the thin skin from tomatoes with a sharp knife, my clumsy aunt grace chasing the ones she’d dropped around the linoleum floor. that would be another picture, not this one. i look back from the future, 15 past the undulating, unremitting line of hills evans framed my family in, through the shaggy fronds of summer ferns he used as foreground and as border. among elms and maples, morgantown, west virginia, august, 20 7 the speaker of the poem is best described as a a descendant of a famous photographer b a historian using photographs as information sources c a researcher studying a historically important photographer d a viewer musing on the significance of a specific photograph

Explanation:

To determine the speaker, analyze the poem's content. The speaker reflects on a photograph (lines about "Evans framed my family," "I look back from the future") with personal, nostalgic musing about family and the photo's significance. Option A: No indication of being a descendant of a famous photographer. Option B: The speaker isn’t a historian using photos as info sources (focus is personal, not research). Option C: The speaker isn’t a researcher studying a photographer. Option D: The speaker is a viewer (likely family - connected) musing on a specific photo’s significance, matching the reflective, personal tone.

Answer:

D. a viewer musing on the significance of a specific photograph