Question

In the second stanza, the speaker reveals that ____________.

• A. she yearns for the love of someone who is oblivious to her
• B. the listener has expressed more ardent sentiments towards her than she has expressed towards him
• C. the listener does not reciprocate her feelings
• D. she is incapable of deep emotional attachment
• E. she is heartbroken over the end of a previous relationship

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

the listener has expressed more ardent sentiments towards her than she has expressed towards him

The first two lines of the second stanza show that the listener feels that she may have been warmer to another man in the past. The fifth and the sixth lines say that no one can tell that it was indeed in the past that she was warmer to someone and not the present. Hence, we can conclude that the listener has expressed to her more than she did to him as the listener still has some questions. B is the correct answer.

Other choices are irrelevant to the contents of the passage. We cannot accept them.