The best description of the speaker in the poem "Longing" by Paul Laurence Dunbar is someone who lost a loved one. The speaker expresses a deep sense of longing and nostalgia, yearning for the companionship of a loved one and reflecting on how their presence would alleviate feelings of sadness and loneliness.
Longing by Paul Laurence Dunbar If you could sit with me beside the sea to-day, And whisper with me sweetest dreamings o’er and o’er; I think I should not find the clouds so dim and gray, And not so loud the waves complaining at the shore. If you could sit with me upon the shore to-day, And hold my hand in yours as in the days of old, I think I should not mind the chill baptismal spray, Nor find my hand and heart and all the world so cold. If you could walk with me upon the strand to-day, And tell me that my longing love had won your own, I think all my sad thoughts would then be put away, And I could give back laughter for the Ocean’s moan! "Longing" by Paul Laurence Dunbar Question Use the poem to answer the question. Which best describes the speaker in the poem? (1 point) Responses someone who actually the ocean. someone who actually the ocean. someone who lost a loved one someone who lost a loved one someone who feels more at home on a beach than anywhere someone who feels more at home on a beach than anywhere someone whose loved one leaves them as they walk along the shore
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