Kevin West

English

2 December, 15:42

Read the poem "The Wind's Visit" by Emily Dickinson.

The wind tapped like a tired man,

And like a host, "Come in,"

I boldly answered; entered then

My residence within

A rapid, footless guest,

To offer whom a chair

Were as impossible as hand

A sofa to the air.

No bone had he to bind him,

His speech was like the push

Of numerous humming-birds at once

From a superior bush.

His countenance a billow,

His fingers, if he pass,

Let go a music, as of tunes

Blown tremulous in glass.

He visited, still flitting;

Then, like a timid man,

Again he tapped-'t was flurriedly-

And I became alone.

Dickinson uses a simile in the first stanza of this poem to

A. describe the doorway of the house.

B. give the wind humanlike characteristics.

C. emphasize the destructive power of the wind.

D. describe the speaker of the poem.