Who are you, reader, reading my poems anhundred years hence?

I cannot send you one single flower from this

wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold

from yonder clouds.

Open your doors and look abroad.

From your blossoming garden gather fragrant

memories of the vanished flowers of an

hundred years before.

In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy

that sang one spring morning, sending its

glad voice across an hundred years.

-"85,"

Rabindranath Tagore

Read Tagore's poem and analyze the use of apostrophe. Draw a conclusion and write two or three sentences about the overall effect that apostrophe has on the reader.

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Zayden Cisneros

English

7 November, 06:40

Who are you, reader, reading my poems anhundred years hence?

I cannot send you one single flower from this

wealth of the spring, one single streak of gold

from yonder clouds.

Open your doors and look abroad.

From your blossoming garden gather fragrant

memories of the vanished flowers of an

hundred years before.

In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy

that sang one spring morning, sending its

glad voice across an hundred years.

-"85,"

Rabindranath Tagore

Read Tagore's poem and analyze the use of apostrophe. Draw a conclusion and write two or three sentences about the overall effect that apostrophe has on the reader.

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Perla Shaw · Answer 1

Tagore tries to converse with all of his readers through this poem. Tagore’s poem talks about time and old age. The voice of the poem is an old man whose audience is of a younger group. The use of apostrophe brings us closer to the old man. Instead of being just an audience, we become part of the poem or its receiver. We are told in everything we see today has its own history and beauty. The entire poem becomes timeless, as the receiver can be anyone at any age.