Multiple choice

Who is referred to by the word 'stranger' in the second stanza?

Directions: Choose the most correct answer based on the given reading.

The time will come

when, with elation

you will greet yourself arriving

at your own door, in your own mirror

and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.

You will love again the stranger who was your self.

Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart

to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored

for another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,

peel your own image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.

                                    Derek Walcott

 

  1. The poet himself

  2. You yourself

  3. The poet's beloved whom he lost for ever

  4. The poet's new love

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

 The first sentence of the second stanza mentions the stranger that was 'you yourself'.