Read the excerpt from "A Day for Wandering" by Clinton Scollard. I set apart a day for wandering; I heard the woodlands ring, The hidden white-throat sing, And the harmonic West, Beyond a far hill-crest, Touch its Aeolian string. “Aeolian string” refers to a harp-like instrument that plays when it is placed in the wind. Based on this definition, which statement best describes the speaker’s view of the wind?
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The wind is distracting.The speaker describes the West as “harmonic” and says it touches an Aeolian string, a harp-like instrument played by the wind. These words suggest that the wind creates music, so the speaker views it as melodic. “Whispering” is less fitting because the passage emphasizes harmony and music.
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