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Poem: Digging

Question 2 • English 12 B

In line 7 of "Digging," what is meant by "comes up twenty years away"?

Answer
A
The speaker can finally see what he should have seen 20 years ago.
B
The speaker has been trying for 20 years to master his father's work.
C
The speaker is carried 20 years into the past by the sight of his father.
D
If the speaker tried for 20 years, he couldn't do the work of his father.

Explanation

The phrase describes the speaker seeing his father in a memory from twenty years earlier, stooping as he dug. The sight takes the speaker back to that moment in the past, so the best answer is “The speaker is carried 20 years into the past by the sight of his father.”

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