Question
Read the quotation from "A Hymn to the Evening".
"Soon as the sun forsook the eastern main
The pealing thunder shook the heav'nly plain"
Wheatley uses the word forsook to express the idea that the sun is
setting during the evening.
rising during the morning.
abandoning the speaker of the poem.
growing in size in the eastern sky.
"Soon as the sun forsook the eastern main
The pealing thunder shook the heav'nly plain"
Wheatley uses the word forsook to express the idea that the sun is
setting during the evening.
rising during the morning.
abandoning the speaker of the poem.
growing in size in the eastern sky.
Answers
GPT-4o mini
In the quotation from "A Hymn to the Evening," Wheatley uses the word "forsook" to express the idea that the sun is **setting during the evening**. The word "forsook" implies that the sun is leaving the eastern sky as day transitions into night.