Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version forts of this poem.

In "To a Poor Old Woman," how does paper bag full of poems act as a symbol?

1) It represents the simple pleasures that make life worth living, which helps give the poem is positive tone

2) It represents the mundaneness of everyday experience, which conveys the poems in different tone

3) It represents the great luxuries that people experience only occasionally, which develops the poem's tone

4) It represents the limits of human happiness, which stresses the poem's fatalistic tone